Viking Museum Haithabu, Archaeological museum in Busdorf, Germany.
The Viking Museum Haithabu is an open-air and archaeological museum in Busdorf that documents the Nordic past of the region. The site includes a modern exhibition building with finds as well as seven reconstructed wooden houses on the meadow near the former harbour.
Haithabu arose in the 8th century as a trading post on the Schlei and rapidly developed into an important hub between the North and Baltic seas. In the 11th century the settlement lost its position after several raids, and the population moved to nearby Schleswig.
The open-air area invites visitors to walk through rebuilt wooden houses that show how Viking families lived and worked more than a thousand years ago. On some days craftspeople demonstrate old techniques such as forging or weaving, bringing daily routines of that time within reach.
The site is open from April to October, and guided tours for groups of twenty or more can be booked in German, Danish, or English. The path between the exhibition building and the outdoor houses runs across meadows and is easy to walk.
In the display cases lie real objects from graves and houses, including combs made of antler, tiny glass beads, and remnants of sailcloth. Some pieces are so well preserved that you can still see the tool marks from a thousand years ago.
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