In the beautiful city of Aarhus has many museums, among them very popular is the Museum of prehistoric Denmark. This is one of the major museums of ancient history of the East Jutland. The Museum has exhibits of stone age, bronze and iron. Specialists-archaeologists, ethnographers, anthropologists Aarhus University take an active part in the work of the Museum.

The main historical attraction of the Museum from 1952 became the mummy "man of Grauballe" who died approximately 2300 years ago at 34 years of age. The mummy was found in a swampy area not far from Aarhus. With the latest technology in 2001, scientists were able to uncover some of the mysteries of the life of this ancient people.

The Museum presents an interesting collection of ancient weapons, found by archaeologists in the valley of the river Illerup. The Museum also hosted the stones with runic inscriptions (partly scientists were able to decipher the inscriptions on them).

Today the Museum is closed for visitors (the Museum moved to new premises). The new facility will open in 2014.

Next is an interesting Viking Museum. Since December 2011 he officially became part of the Museum of prehistoric Denmark. In the exposition of the Viking Museum presents fragments of various structures, tools, household utensils, ceramics, etc. using 3D effects to the visitors of the Museum presents a panorama of ancient Aarhus.