ArkeoDok Viking History Museum in Visby, Gotland, Sweden | Museum | Heritage Museum

ArkeoDok Viking History Museum loctaed in Visby in Gotland, Sweden houses various strange artifacts from the days the Viking ruled the country.

The summer 2007 was the start of a new excavation project on the island of Gotland, Sweden, called Viking Discovery Programme. The project focus on the Viking farm itself. So far, there have been very few excavation concerning farmsteads, and the project aim at reaching a new and broad knowledge about the Viking Age farm on Gotland.

ArkeoDok Viking History Museum Summer 2007's course was carried out at a place called Klints, with some fascinating results, not at least in the form of well preserved wooden posts, dated to 1044-1050 AD. The field course will be combined with find analyses courses, running parallel to the field course. Here is the chance to take part in a fascinating excavation programme in Visby, Gotland.

Bringing history to life is our goal. We concentrate our work on mediating accurate knowledge concerning Vikings and Viking history. Our base is the Viking island of Gotland - a real centre in the Viking world.

Many years of archaeological excavations of farms and graves, as well as harbours from Viking time and Middle Ages have given us a good base for understanding the Vikings in all its different senses.

Gotland Silver Island!
I have many times been talking about the interesting fact of all the Viking silver hoards found on the island of Gotland (more then 700 until today, being 2/3 of all hoards from the whole of Sweden). Last autumn I made some investigations of places where silver hoards had been found earlier, more on this vaccinating subject can be found at the Museum or on our CD.