Inhabitat

Hufton + Crow capture Denmark’s beautiful grass-covered Moesgaard Museum in new photos

The wedge-shaped museum was designed to nestle right into a preexisting hill, utilizing the submersion to naturally insulate part of the structure and save on climate control costs. Although partially ...
Inhabitat

Have a Picnic or Sled on Top of Henning Larsen’s New Moesgaard Museum in Denmark

Standing on the side of a hill in a suburb known as Skåde, the new Moesgaard Museum has a green roof that rises from its rural environment. Covered in grass, moss and flowers, it features luscious ...
Artnet

‘Scent of Eternity’: The Smell of Egyptian Mummies Is the Focus of a Denmark Museum Exhibition

A new exhibition at Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum is promising to transport visitors back 3,500 years through the power of smell. “Ancient Egypt–Obsessed with Life” does not feature sculptural works or ...
gizmodo

Archaeologists Unearth Viking-Era Burial With Incredibly Rare Casket

The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people they enslaved. Reading time 2 minutes Archaeologists from Denmark’s Moesgaard ...
Detail

Discreetly conspicuous: Moesgaard Museum in Denmark

This year the Moesgaard Museum in Skåde, located south of Aarhus, has already won several distinctions. The Moesgaard Museum, which measures 16,000 m², was designed by Henning Larsen Architects in ...
Archaeology

Cemetery of Viking Noble Family Unearthed in Denmark

LISBJERG, DENMARK—France 24 reports that archaeologists from the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus uncovered a tenth-century Viking cemetery at a construction site in Lisbjerg. The site contained as many as ...