This issue is dedicated to ‘All Things Jutland’
Summary: ARoS Art Museum (Aarhus): 12 years of ‘Rainbow Panorama’ | Silver coins from the early 1600s discovered in West Jutland | Vindelev (Jutland): first solid evidence of main Norse god Odin being worshipped in fifth century | ‘Tirpitz Museum’ (‘Blåvand Bunker Museum’) | Top secret nuclear bunker turned into Cold War museum | The Peter Skautrup Centre for Jutlandic Research | The new Aarhus stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects | ‘The Lantern’ Maritime Center, Esbjerg | Hune (Northern Jutland): archaeologists unearthed a 10th-Century Viking hall | ‘How to live in Denmark’ podcast: ‘Randers is not a joke’ | Visit Aalborg | Monstrum Playground: ‘An Industrial History Adventure’ (Horsens, Denmark) | Rail journey of the month: the slow train to Skagen | ‘Flugt’, the refugee museum (Oksbøl, Jutland) | “Europe’s best city you’ve never heard of”: Aarhus | Skagen (Denmark’s northernmost village) | ‘How to live in Denmark’ podcast: ‘Randers is not a joke’
ARoS Art Museum (Aarhus): 12 years of ‘Rainbow Panorama’
The ARoS Art Museum celebrates the 12th anniversary of ‘Your rainbow panorama’, created by Olafur Eliasson
Silver coins from the early 1600s discovered in West Jutland
A metal detectorist discovered a silver coin minted during the reign of Christian IV in the early 1600s in a field near Hover in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality (West Jutland)
Vindelev (Jutland): first solid evidence of main Norse god Odin being worshipped in fifth century
Scandinavian scientists identified the oldest known inscription of the Norse god ‘Odin’ on a gold disc unearthed in 2020 in the village of Vindelev, central Jutland (western Denmark)
‘Tirpitz Museum’ (‘Blåvand Bunker Museum’)
Tirpitz Museum, also called ‘Blåvand Bunker Museum’, is a museum in Blåvand, built in an old bunker and featuring exhibitions on the Atlantic Wall, the west coast of Denmark
Top secret nuclear bunker turned into Cold War museum
‘Regan Vest’ top secret nuclear bunker was intended to house Danish government and authorities for 30 days in the event of a nuclear war
The Peter Skautrup Centre for Jutlandic Research
The Peter Skautrup Centre for Jutlandic Research is a research centre at Aarhus University and the main centre for Jutlandic dialectology in Denmark
The new Aarhus stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects
Embedded within the city’s Marselisborg forest, the new Aarhus stadium is nicknamed the ‘Arena of the Forest,’ and it will take shape as an extension of the forest
‘The Lantern’ Maritime Center, Esbjerg
A new ‘Maritime Center’ dubbed “The Lantern” and developed by WERK Arkitekter and Snøhetta has opened to the public in Esbjerg
Hune: archaeologists unearthed a 10th-Century Viking hall
Archaeologists digging in the village of Hune (Northern Jutland) have discovered the remains of a vast Viking hall, the largest Viking Age find of this nature in more than a decade
A former stronghold of the Vikings, Aalborg (Denmark’s fourth largest city) is now a vibrant cultural centre in Jutland
Monstrum Playground: ‘An Industrial History Adventure’ (Horsens, Denmark)
The Industrial History Adventure playground is located outside the ‘Industrial Museum’ in Horsens: children can experience some of the machines that they can learn about in the museum.
Rail journey of the month: the slow train to Skagen
From Theguardian.com Rail journey of the month: the slow train to Skagen, where the North Sea meets the Baltic
‘Flugt’, the refugee museum (Oksbøl, Jutland)
‘Flugt’ is the new refugee museum that Denmark opened in the former refugee camp in Oksbøl, West Jutland
“Europe’s best city you’ve never heard of”: Aarhus
The Daily Beast guides the reader around the wonderful Danish city of Aarhus
Skagen (Denmark’s northernmost village)
Skagen is Denmark’s northernmost village, all the way to the confluence of the Grenen tip where the North Sea channels into the Kattegat and then becomes the Baltic Sea
‘How to live in Denmark’ podcast: ‘Randers is not a joke’
Randers is a city in Northern Jutland, about a half hour away from Aarhus: it was a manufacturing town, and when manufacturing fell apart in Denmark after the Second World War, so did Randers
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