Moesgaard Museum, south of Aarhus, is one of the finest archaeology and ethnography museums in Scandinavia, and its building is remarkable in its own right: designed by Henning Larsen Architects and completed in 2014, the sloping grass roof rises from the surrounding landscape so gradually that you can walk up it like a hill. The effect is disorienting and wonderful.
The centrepiece of the permanent collection is the Grauballe Man — a 2,300-year-old Iron Age bog body found preserved in a peat bog near Aarhus with skin, hair, and internal organs intact. He is displayed in a darkened, climate-controlled room designed specifically to show the contours of his face and the quality of his preservation. Also on display: the Illerup Ådal weapon finds, one of the largest collections of Iron Age military equipment in the world, deposited in a lake as a ritual sacrifice following a battle.
The museum is about eight kilometres south of the city centre; take bus 18 from the train station.