Today I visited the National Danish Museum. I went to a majority of the exhibits on display-- all of which were very well done.
The first was called "Early Danes." This exhibit went through time starting with the Stone-Age , Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, and ended with the Vikings. If you read my post about going to Lejre, you could see that this exhibit really reiterated what I had already learned about the early history of Denmark.
During the Bronze-Age people were very involved in sun worship and solar deities. A golden sun chariot was found in a peat bog (which keeps artifacts extremely well preserved due to high iron and low oxygen content). It is thought to be from 1800 to 1600 BCE.
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| Trundholm sun chariot |
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| A rock depicting people on a boat dancing in honor of the sun while the crew in the back holds up sun images. |
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| Lurs--one of the first ever wind instruments created and used in the Bronze-Age (c. 1000 BC). |
Another exhibit focused on the renaissance and reformation era of Denmark. This exhibit featured many religious pieces including crosses, sculptures, alters, clocks, jewelry, and outfits worn by religious figures.
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| Beautiful tapestries hanging behind a knight in shining armor. |
The last exhibit I visited highlighted contemporary Denmark (from the 70's -present) and had a special section about toys produced in Denmark.
**The museum have a whopping 3 items on the menu. Two items were pork hotdogs and one was flatbread with cream-cheese. Because I don't eat pork, naturally I went for the cream-cheese flatbread and put some strawberry jam on it. It was quite a skimpy sandwich.
