Aarhus and ARoS
Denmark'S Second City, With ARoS Art Museum And Its Rainbow Panorama, The Open Air Town Museum Den Gamle By And Moesgaard · Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Aarhus is Denmark's second city, a young, walkable university town on the east coast of Jutland that packs in some of the country's best museums. Its landmark is ARoS, a large modern art museum crowned by 'Your rainbow panorama', Olafur Eliasson's circular glass walkway in every colour of the spectrum, which lets you walk a loop above the rooftops and see the city tinted red, yellow, green and blue. A short walk away is Den Gamle By, an open-air museum of old Danish townhouses rebuilt street by street, with costumed staff and newer quarters showing later decades. South of the city, Moesgaard Museum holds the Grauballe Man, an Iron Age bog body preserved in startling detail, under a sloping grass roof. In between are the cafes of the Latin Quarter, the tall cathedral, the redeveloped harbour front and the free harbour bath. The honest caveat: Aarhus is excellent for museums and food but it is not an old-world showpiece, and the rainbow is busy on rainy days and at weekends.
Aarhus, from ARoS and the Latin Quarter to Den Gamle By and the harbour front, Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
ARoS is open Tuesday to Sunday, usually closed on Mondays, with a late opening one evening a week - check the current schedule. Den Gamle By opens daily with longer hours in summer and at Christmas. Moesgaard is usually open daily, with shorter hours off season. Aarhus is about 3 hours by train from Copenhagen; Moesgaard is reached by city bus. The harbour bath and Infinite Bridge are summer only. Book ARoS tickets online on busy days.