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Attractions in Ribe

Ribe offers a wide and colorful palette of various museums and attractions. Architectural gems like the Cathedral and the beautiful medieval town center. In Ribe the possibilities are endless and the experiences great.

Ribe
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Vadehavscentret
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Wadden Sea Centre - The Gate to UNESCO World Heritage

The Wadden Sea Centre is located right by the Wadden Sea, which is Denmark's largest, flattest and wettest National Park.
It is a unique natural area in Denmark, which was named a National Park in 2010.

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The ship on Ribe's Vikings
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Museet Ribes Vikinger

Revealing Ribe’s history from the Viking period and Middle Ages to the year 1700 in the very spot where the very first town in the Nordic region was founded in around the year 700 A.D.

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Ribe VikingeCenter - meet the vikings
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Ribe VikingeCenter - meet the vikings

Ribe VikingeCenter gives you the authentic, living Viking experience.

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Ribe Art Museum
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Ribe Art Museum

A stroll through Ribe Kunstmuseum's beautiful rooms is a walk through 200 years of art history.

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Big picture at Jacob A. Riis Museum
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Jacob A. Riis Museum in Ribe

The story of Jacob A. Riis is the story of almost hitting rock bottom in the worst of New York’s neighbourhoods, and the story of how toil, the will to create a better society and belief in himself turned the boy from Ribe into what the President called “the ideal American”.

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Skull in the exhibition | Hex Museum | By the Wadden Sea
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HEX! Museum of Witch Hunt in Ribe

HEX! this new museum in Ribe tells the story of witch-hunting in Denmark and Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.

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Riplay Ribe
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Riplay

Ribe Activity and History Park is built on Ribe's long history and life around the Wadden Sea.

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Ribe Cathedral
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Ribe Cathedral - Denmark's oldest cathedral

Denmark's oldest cathedral, construction on the building started in approx. 1150. In the cathedral gallery which contains an entrance from the tower, there is a museum that presents the cathedral's construction history.

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Attractions in the area

Marsk Tower
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Marsk Tower, Skærbæk

The Marsk Tower is the meeting point for the entire Marsk Camp, here everyone is welcome to take a walk up and admire the spectacular view.

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Glad Zoo, Lintrup
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Glad Zoo, Lintrup

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GIVSKUD ZOO

Drive on safari in your own car, take the safari bus or walk around GIVSKUD ZOO ZOOTOPIA. Here you are guaranteed a fantastic day very close to the animals in the large park.

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Sct. Catharinæ Church
Visit the abbey of Sct. Catharinæ Church and take a walk around the idyllic abbey garden where time seems to stand still.

Det Gamle Rådhus (Old Town Hall)
Other attractions in Ribe worth a visit include the the Old Town Hall and Rådhussamlingen (Town Hall Collection), as well as the Kannikegaarden and Taarnborg buildings.