Lofotr Viking Museum

I liked that everything is included in the price. The beginning of the museum where you listen, is a little short and could have improvement, but the rest is very good. I like the longhouse, axe throwing and arrow shooting. It's also a boat included to top the experience. Unfortunately I was a little too cold to try it this day, but looks fun. It has also a souvenir and taxfree shop.

Expansive Viking museum, with local artifacts on display, a re-constructed longhouse, & activities. It’s about a 20 minute scenic walk down to the water for boat rides & activities (axe throwing / archery / pony rides for kids). Good selection & quality at the cafe.

Such a disappointment for an adult visitor. The museum has great potential: the reconstruction of the longhouse is impressive, the artifacts on display are interesting, there's a film intended to immerse you in Viking life, and you can even sail a dragon boat! So what could possibly go wrong? Well, the longhouse exhibition contains almost no information in English—except for a small panel about mythology. As a result, we simply walked through a beautifully designed exhibit without gaining any real insight. I teach at a university, so I’m fairly tolerant of dry or academic content. However, the audio guide for the main exhibition has a very poor ratio of useful to irrelevant information. You have to listen to a lot of unnecessary stories just to find a few meaningful facts. The film offers no historical context—it’s merely an emotional (and slightly melodramatic) visual portrayal of one jarl’s life, again without providing much educational value. Finally, we wanted to sail the dragon boat. After a 15-minute walk to the lake, we discovered that we could only sign up for a ride an hour later. I really don’t understand why registration isn’t handled at the museum entrance - this would save visitors time and frustration. To sum up, you can have a nice experience here as an adult visitor - just don’t expect to learn much about Viking history.

Great experience for the whole family. From leather tanning, archery, axe throwing, pony rides, Viking ship sail to the visit of the long house it was exactly the educational visit we expected and fully enjoyed. Our children learned about the Scandinavian past with eagerness and engagement throughout the whole visit.

Well worth the visit. For someone who is from Asia, we know nothing about the Vikings. However, a trip here taught us quite a lot about the Vikings and their way of life. You could easily spend about 2 hours here. There were also horses roaming in the compound. Parking is free too.

Amazing place! You can even shoot arrows, throw axes, and go sailing in a viking boat! You can even try some viking time clothes, shields, helmets, and swords. There were also horses and pigs.

The museum is really interesting, beautifully built and the personell is super friendly and open to questions. Also the prices on the area (e.g. coffee = 30NOK) are fair for norwegian standards. There is plenty activities to try out on the big area (e.g. sailing the repliqua of a viking ship, axe throwing, etc.). So why only two stars? I was actually negatively surprised that is such a friendly surrounding still a horse is offered for kids to sit on - a living being which would like to stand on the big field of the museum with it‘s animal compagnions instead of being climbed by little annoying humans who in most cases not know how to properly treat an animal - and are obviously not teached a this place. Especially when five meters away a sign is praising the norwegian horse race - what a disonance between respect and misuse. W/o that animal abuse 5 stars would be well deserved.

Not such a big museum where you mostly see the artifacts, such as clothes, weapons and coins, from few hundred years ago. If you expect some Viking fight demonstrations or so, you won't see them here. There is a big outdoor area with some animals and also a separate building where you can see craft making. I especially appreciated activities outside where you can play some outdoor game or shoot an arrow. The activity places are not that clearly marked, though, so you might walk a bit around before you find them all. The shop at the end of the museum is quite big and you will find a lot of both viking themed and other souvenirs. I recommend to bring your own headphones, as you might listen to an audio guide through a museum app on your phone.