At Moesgaard, people are at the centre – both in our exhibitions and teaching. Through an engaging approach, students experience how the past helps us understand the present and think about the future. We offer engaging experiences that bring history to life to classes from all school years. You can choose from several different options to suit your pupils, learning objectives and teaching purposes. See our selection of educational options below.
On this short tour, we present the museum to the youngest children. Together we will play, ask and explore.
We start by meeting our maternal ancestor Lucy, who lived 3.2 million years ago – or is she just a dummy? But what is real and what is a copy? Where does sound and light come from? How do we know what we know? What does an archaeologist do and what stories are waiting in the rest of the museum?
This educational option is based on creating together with the children, in which together we explore our common past.
Age group: nursery schools and school starters
Number: max. 20 children and 2 teachers/educators
Duration and price: around 30 minutes - 450 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
On Moesgaard’s Stairway of Evolution, we explore human history over millions of years We train the pupils’ observational skills by drawing different human species and comparing their body shape and faces. Together we discover what is similar and what is different, and how humans have evolved over time.
Along the way, we gather to learn more about human evolution and share our thoughts. Finally, we each make our own suggestions about how the people of the future will develop?
Period: 3.1 million years BCE – 8,000 BCE
Age group: 3rd year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
1 hour – 900 DKK: option without drawing. The students learn about human evolution through presentation, engaging questions and concluding dialogue about the people of the future.
2 hours – 1,350 DKK: like the 1 hour option, but with time for detailed drawing and more in-depth dialogue about human development in the past, present and future.
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
In this process, we travel 10,000 years back in time, when we meet the first reindeer hunters, the settlers on the coasts and the first farmers. We begin with students’ ideas about the Stone Age and challenge the idea of primitive Stone Age people. By handling actual Stone Age tools, we learn about their everyday lives – how they used nature’s resources and built their homes. We investigate the great change from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming and talk about how migrations, new religions and changes in climate affected the people of the Stone Age – and make connections with the present and the future.
Period: 12,500-1700 BCE
Age group: all school years Especially suitable for school starters and middle years
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
Duration and price: 1 hour - 900 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Through play and dialogue, we become traders in the Bronze Age and follow trading routes from the city of Mycenae with its palaces all the way up to the amber coast of Denmark. Our starting point is the everyday life of the students – how do we trade with each other, and what is valuable to you? Along the way, we learn about how people traded over great distances 3,000 years ago, and when and why things became valuable.
We wonder what status the dead buried in Borum Eshøj had, and meet a woman who was the link to the world of the gods.
Period: 1700-500 BCE
Age group: all years Especially suitable for school starters and middle years
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
Duration and price: 1 hour – 900 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
What is the difference between being a sacrifice for something and a sacrifice to something? Together, we consider what it meant to sacrifice in the Iron Age and what happened to Grauballe Man.
In the exhibition, the students become detectives, who collect evidence to solve the mystery of Grauballe Man. They take a critical approach to what they see at the museum and argue for their own theory of what happened. Finally, we collect and compare the students’ theories with those of the museum. We talk about the value of a human life then and today – and what will the ultimate sacrifice be in the future?
Period: 500 BCE-800 CE
Age group: all school years
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
1 hour – 900 DKK: as described above
2 hours – 1,350 DKK: like the option lasting 1 hour, but with more time for in-depth examination of the individual points.
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Based on the well-preserved weapon find from the Illerup Ådal, we experience a great Iron Age battle unfolding around us. We take part in the build-up, the heat of battle and the following sacrifices to the gods.
Together we follow the fleeing family, the fighting soldier and finally the victorious warrior kings. We reflect on how our sympathy changes along the way. What may have happened to the survivors? What human fates do the many war finds conceal? Finally, we connect our thoughts to the present and future and reflect on how war occurs today.
Period: 205 CE
Age group: 5th year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
1 hour – 900 DKK: as described above
2 hours – 1,350 DKK: like the option lasting 1 hour, but with more time for in-depth examination, dialogue and student involvement
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
We go back to Aros – Viking Age Aarhus – and beyond into the world of the Vikings.
In small groups, the pupils meet different people from the Viking Age and learn how stories from this time can vary greatly depending on gender, status and activity. We go on a city trip around Aros before we venture out into the world with the person from the Viking Age we perhaps know best: the Viking warrior. But how does he earn his silver?
On the journey down the Volga River, we are confronted with some unpleasant truths before we return home again. Now Denmark is becoming Christian – but which Jesus do the Vikings believe in?
Period: 750-1050 CE
Age group: all school years
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
1 hour – 900 DKK: as described above
2 hours – 1,350 DKK: like the 1 hour option, but with more time for in-depth work, dialogue and student involvement
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Visit the Viking Museum on Bispetorv and step down into the Viking Age Aros, three metres below the street level of today.
Down here we listen to the stories about Harald Bluetooth’s fortification, the Snaptun Stone with its depiction of the god Loki and the skeleton which was found in the middle of the floor. We learn about the fortifications of the town and the inhabitants of the place where the stories unfolded.
This educational option ends with a walk in central Aarhus, focusing on the introduction of Christianity. During the walk, we hear the story of the emergence of the town and its development during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.
Period: 800-1050 CE
Age group: 4th year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
Duration and price: 1.5 hour – 1,500 DKK
Time: Monday 10:00-15:00
As a farmer, town dweller or noble, we live a whole lifetime in the Danish Middle Ages. We encounter the justice of the Middle Ages and the possibilities people had in the countryside and towns. Finally, we travel into purgatory and see how the temptations of life judge us in death.
Each of the students choose a purse which decides their fate and role in society. Through roleplaying, we consider the role of Christianity, the structure of society and life with the seven deadly sins. The Middle Ages are a period that lead to great cultural and religious changes. We connect the past with the present and think about where we are heading today. Do we all have equal opportunities in today’s Denmark?
Period: 1050-1536
Age group: 5th year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
1 hour – 900 DKK: as described above
2 hours – 1,350 DKK: like the option lasting 1 hour, but with more time for in-depth work, dialogue and student involvement
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Together we look at the coming of age rituals of the Stone Age, Viking Age and today.
Based on three selected sections of the exhibition and the stave church, the students work via dialogue with the transition from being a child to part of the community of adults in different religions and cultures. We examine the transition from paganism to Christianity and various coming of age rituals. This educational option ends with the students reflecting on the rituals they will perhaps experience themselves.
Period: Stone Age, Viking Age and present
Age group: 6th year and older. Especially well suited for those preparing for confirmation
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
Duration and price: 1 hour – 900 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Together we come close to four warriors from their own time and place: the Sepik warrior from Papua New Guinea, the Japanese samurai, the Roman legionary and the modern Danish soldier. We take a closer look at the differences in their beliefs, training and motives for going to war.
With the four warriors as a starting point, we discuss how people overcome the taboo of killing and how the warriors are reincorporated into society again after the battle. We reflect on difficult questions about people as warriors and our relationship to war.
Period: from the Roman period to the present
Age group: 7th year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers
Duration and price: 1 hour – 900 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00
Come along into the world of the Celts - the world we are familiar with from Asterix and Obelix.
In this educational option we dive down into the fascinating world of the Celts. Around 2,500 years ago, the Celts began to dominate Europe.
They are a fundamental force in Europe. But who are they? What do you they believe in? What does their society look like? Based on the artefacts left behind by the Celts, the students come close to a culture characterised by strong warrior communities, fortified towns and wild rituals. A culture that has connections which extend right up to our time. At the end of the course we meet the Roman Empire, and it perhaps becomes clear to us why the Celts are no longer here.
Age group: 5th year and older
Number: max. 25 pupils and 2 teachers/educators
Duration and price: 1 hour – 900 DKK
Time: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-15:00 This option can be booked in the period 21.10.25 - 15.08.26.