Explore Roskilde
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
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The ruin of Roskilde's medieval Sankt Laurentii Church under Stændertorvet and the early 16th-century tower that survived it, later used as a prison and as the town hall tower. Visitors go underground to the ruin, then climb the tower. Open June to mid-October.
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One of Scandinavia's earliest brick Gothic cathedrals, built in the 12th and 13th centuries and the burial place of Danish monarchs since the 15th century; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995.
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City museum in two historic buildings showcasing Roskilde's history from prehistoric times to the present, with collections of archaeological finds and medieval artifacts.
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Craft tools from about 1850 to 1950 on the first floor of the old Lützhøft merchant's granary, with working workshops of a wood carver, a silversmith and a weaver.
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Open 24 hours
Regional music venue and youth culture house in Roskilde, with concerts, comedy and free Saturday jazz, and the café The Raven next door.
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Museum featuring five original Viking ships from Skuldelev with exhibitions, guided tours, boat rides, and a boatyard workshop.
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A museum of Danish pop, rock and youth culture from the 1950s to today, in the Musicon district of Roskilde. Called Ragnarock until 2026, it opened in 2016 in a gold-studded building by COBE and MVRDV.
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A museum in a thatched 19th-century farm at Gammel Lejre on Lejre as a royal seat in the Iron Age and Viking Age, close to the ship setting and the site of the excavated royal halls.
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An open-air museum of experimental archaeology near Lejre, founded in 1964, with a reconstructed Iron Age village, a Stone Age camp and 19th-century smallholders' houses across 43 hectares. Open in season.
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A coastal fort on Køge Bay built in 1913–16, now a museum on how Denmark stayed neutral through the First World War and what the war meant for daily life. Exhibition texts and audio are in English too.
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