Explore Ødsted

Open-air museum in the Vejle river valley with a reconstructed Iron Age settlement of houses, fields, a smithy and livestock, plus the old Vingsted mill and its craft workshops.

Iron Age fortification west of Vejle, a raised enclosure of some 1,700 square metres ringed by a rampart above a 70-metre drop into the river valley.

Former gravel pit near Egtved turned into a sculpture park, with works in steel, granite and timber made by Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt between 1986 and 1991.

Local museum at Egtved with free admission, telling the area's history and the story of the Egtved Girl, open at weekends and in the school holidays.

Old country general store on the Vejle river valley railway, still trading, with a museum of its own stock and a café.

Museum in central Vejle with Danish painting and sculpture from classic modernism up to the years before CoBrA, plus Golden Age works and fifty Rembrandt etchings.

Performing arts venue in Vejle hosting concerts, theatre, stand-up, musicals, and other cultural events.

Cultural and archaeological museum in Vejle featuring exhibitions on Danish history, including the Haraldskær Woman bog body and industrial-era displays.

UNESCO World Heritage site with the Jelling burial mounds, the runestones of Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth, and Jelling Church.

Denmark's largest Viking site with Harald Bluetooth's palisade, ship setting, runestones and burial mounds.

Zoo with over 100 animal species including jaguars and Denmark's only takins, with family activities and interactive experiences.