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<< Our Photo Pages >> Moesgard Museum - Museum in Denmark in Midtjylland

Submitted by hamish on Friday, 19 September 2008  Page Views: 8347

MuseumsSite Name: Moesgard Museum Alternative Name: Moesgård Museum
Country: Denmark County: Midtjylland Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Aarhus  Nearest Village: Hojbjerg
Latitude: 56.086747N  Longitude: 10.224983E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 23rd Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Definite recommendation from me to visit this museum. It is simply impressive both in terms of the type of exhibition and the technical (and flawless) scope. The large number of rune stones drew me here and I ended up in the museum for over 3 hours!

Boeddel visited on 1st Oct 2010 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4

hamish have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4.5

Moesgard Museum
Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : This is a small chambered tomb from North Jutland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This is a cultural centre for North Denmark housing archeological and ethnographic collections. The body of Grauballe man is exhibited here (a two thousand year old well preserved body found in a bog).

There is a prehistoric footpath where you see reconstructions of prehistoric houses and grave monuments which lead to Moesgaard Strand where the Viking Moot is held in July. There is also an exhibition of Rune Stones rescued from all over Denmark.

Note: Just found lurking with no home in the back of the megaportal archives is this Danish museum, and a collection of pictures from Hamish. Now all identified and together on its own sitepage.
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Moesgard Museum submitted by Alta-Falisa : Pottery from Transylvania, 1600 BC. On loan. Photo : May 2019. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Alta-Falisa : Pottery from Transylvania, 1600 BC. On laon. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Alta-Falisa : Dated AD 1000. Found in 1850 in tnhe foundation of Aarhus windmill (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Alta-Falisa : The "Gundestrup Cauldron". (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Alta-Falisa : Site in Århus Denmark

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Hamish : Unknown origin and purpose (1 comment)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by Hamish : This is the Aarhus Rune Stone. People wear the image on Tshirts and sweat Shirts. (1 comment)

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Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : Small Rune Stone from North Jutland.

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Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : A Rune Stone from North Jutland with Christian symbol.

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Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : This is another aspect of the relocated Long Barrow at the museum. I took a picture of the information board but it didn't come out.These monuments have been erected with the original orientation in mind which shows some thought.

Moesgard Museum
Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : This is another aspect of the relocated Long Barrow at the museum. I took a picture of the information board but it didn't come out.

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Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : Another chambered tomb from North Jutland.

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Moesgard Museum submitted by hamish : A cupmarked stone in thr ciste and chambered tomb field.

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : The bog body 'Grauballe-Man' September 23, 2022

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : September 23, 2022

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : One of the few depictions of the (possibly) Norse god Loki that has been found (there is almost no evidence that he was worshiped). September 23, 2022

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : September 23, 2022

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Moesgard Museum submitted by CharcoalBurner89

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Re: Moesgard Museum by Alta-Falisa on Tuesday, 28 May 2019
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I suggest to split this page in two : the museum proper and the prehistoric footpath, because these are two different topics.
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Smell at Moesgård Archaeological Trail, Denmark by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 June 2017
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Stuart Eve writes: Smell has been used previously in a number of museum settings to engage visitors with a reconstructed past sensorium: the smell of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in London's Natural History Museum; the Jorvik Centre in York; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. These explorations of smell are almost exclusively confined to presenting smells to the museum visitor for consumption, usually as a novelty. For example, at the Jorvik Centre the visitors are moved through the re-creation of a Viking town via a 'Time Car' on fixed rails; they are moving through the smellscape that changes depending on how far along the ride they are. Without doubt the multi-sensory experience of Jorvik affects the way visitors think about the exhibits and Aggleton and Waskett have demonstrated that a visitor's recall of the exhibit is better if they are exposed to similar smells at a later time, but due to the 'theme-park' style Time Cars there is little chance to independently explore the multi-sensory atmosphere.

The olfactory challenge for the archaeological embodied GIS is to enable these smells to be experienced in situ while investigating an archaeological site. The smells should be an integrated part of the GIS database; for instance, when dealing with Bronze Age roundhouses as in the vision section above, the smells as well as the appearance of these roundhouses should be experienced when using an embodied GIS. To enact this, the olfaction triggers are simply linked to the GIS data in the same way as the size, shape and orientation of the 3D model for the roundhouse is or the audio files for the burials in York Cemetery.

To demonstrate how this is achieved, I will discuss my use of the Dead Man's Nose (DMN) project at Moesgård Museum's archaeological trail. The archaeological trail at Moesgård consists of a number of different sites at which there are a combination of reconstructions, excavated archaeological remains and standing buildings. These sites range in antiquity from the Neolithic to the medieval period. The work was initially undertaken as part of my PhD research, but was extended during the 2015 York University Heritage Jam. http://www.heritagejam.org A video explaining the mechanics of the device and also demonstrating it in action at Moesgård Museum is shown below.



https://youtu.be/6yEy9rippJk

As the video shows, the Dead Man's Nose consists of an Arduino (computer) board, battery, a BluetoothLE chip, and four small fans contained within small boxes. The boxes contain small drawers in which a scent can be placed on a small piece of cotton wool, which is then dispersed when the fans blow. The fan boxes also have small pieces of velcro on the back, allowing them to be attached either to clothing or to a board that can be worn around the neck (as seen in the video). The device communicates with a mobile phone using BluetoothLE that reads the user's GPS position and (as with the sound example above) emits a smell, by turning on one or more fans, when the user is within a specified radius of an archaeological feature.

More at The Embodied GIS. Using Mixed Reality to explore multi-sensory archaeological landscapes - Stuart Eve
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue44/3/4-3.html
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Re: Moesgard Museum by hamish on Friday, 19 September 2008
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Thanks for making this stand in its own right. There is so much to see here with many exhibitions.The Neolithic/Bronze age is covered very well with rescued burial chambers transported and effectively resited. I was only here for an afternoon but could have stayed a day or two, Am visiting again soon.

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