RIBE VIKING CENTRE 25 MUSEET RIBES VIKINGER

MUSEET RIBES VIKINGER

CONTACT ODINS PLADS 1 DK-6760 RIBE P +45 76 16 39 60

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What were the origins of Ribe and how did the town’s inhabitants live when Ribe was a major European trading centre ? Ribe Viking Museum is the place to find the answers. The exhibitions of unique archaeological finds present the history of Ribe from the beginning of the 700s and on through the Viking Age and the Middle Ages to about 1700.

In the years 710-850, the Viking marketplace flourished, and the museum’s Viking Age exhibition is packed with beautiful objects from the workshops of the bead maker, the bronze caster and the comb maker. The exhibition about Ribe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance tells about daily life: play, health and sickness - about religious houses and churches and about the ongoing profitable trading in the town.

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JACOB A. RIIS MUSEUM

CONTACT SORTEBRØDREGADE 1 DK-6760 RIBE P +45 76 16 39 80

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President Roosevelt called him ”New York’s most useful citizen”, and he was one of the pioneers of documentary photography. The Jacob A. Riis Museum tells the fascinating story of the Ribe boy who emigrated to America in 1870. About the man who with his hard-hitting articles and photos from the raw, tough life in New York’s slums, opened the eyes of the bourgeoisie to ”how the other half lives”. About his youthful infatuation with the beautiful Elisabeth from the richest family in Ribe, whom, thanks to his perseverance, he was eventually able take with him across the Atlantic as his bride.

The story of Jacob A. Riis is the story of almost giving up the ghost in New York’s worst neighbourhoods, and how hard grind, a vision of a better society and belief in himself made the Ribe boy what the president called ”the ideal American”.

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HEX! MUSEUM OF WITCH HUNT

CONTACT SORTEBRØDREGADE 1 DK-6760 RIBE P +45 76 16 39 80

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The best-known Danish witch, Maren Spliids, came from Ribe - she was burned at the stake in 1641 and thus fell victim to the fears of her time. The exhibits help visitors understand the widespread spiritual beliefs that helped ordinary people understand and cope with illness, distress and loss. But visitors will also meet the scholars who maintained that the devil always had a finger in the pie.

These two angles on magic merged in the contemporary perceptions of witches and wizards, who were feared at every level of society.

HEX ! delves into some very specific processes and also talks about the European rulers who allowed courts to prosecute and condemn those thought to be in the service of the devil.

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