FOTEVIKEN VIKING MUSEUM / MARKET IN SWEDEN

Foteviken was probably my favorite place to visit, other than the bar at the Grand Hotel Åsgårdstrand (what goes on in Norway, stays in Norway!) it involved three of us consuming many shots of aquavit and calvados. We undoubtably consumed more than we probably should have. But, it was fun!

The Foteviken Museum is an archaeological open-air museum on the Höllviken peninsula in southern Skåne, Sweden. I liked it because it Is next to the ocean, just the way the Vikings would have built a town. It contains a reconstruction of a large Viking Age settlement and visitors participate in living history reenactments. It also performs research and functions as the municipal museum of Vellinge Municipality and part of Fotevikens Kulturcenter, a group of cultural facilities on the peninsula, and is not government funded. It is marketed as open to “all Vikings” and attracts large numbers of Viking Age reenactors.

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