Last Monday, I watched that week’s episode of Game of Thrones with Rane Willerslev, anthropologist, Director of the Danish National Museum, and Arctic explorer. As Jon Snow and his motley raiding party ventured beyond the wall to capture an undead wight, Rane became more and […]
In 1975, a traditional Thai house was dismantled in northern Thailand and shipped to Denmark. It was assembled a few months later in surroundings quite different – but arguably just as beautiful – in close proximity to old Moesgaard Manor, where Moesgaard Museum is also […]
Did you know that Christianity flourished in Ethiopia many hundreds of years before it reached Scandinavia? Christianity became the state religion in Ethiopia in 330 AD, five hundred years before the first missionaries reached Denmark in the Viking Age. We, here in Northern Europe, pride […]
Do any of you watch Doctor Who? The brilliant British TV series about an alien called a Time Lord, who travels in time and space in his time machine (shaped like a blue Police Box), usually accompanied by a human sidekick or two. It is […]
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