Lindholm Høje – Museum and gravesite
Vendilavej 11
9400 Nørresundby
tel. +45 96 310 428

Lindholm Høje is recognised as Scandinavia’s largest Viking burial ground. It is a burial site and habitation centre from Germanic Iron Age and Viking Age (4th-11th centuries). There are 682 graves and 150 ship settings (graves). North of the burial site was the village, of which there has been found houses, fences, wells and cooking sites. The area was pestered by sand drift and around the year 1000 the shifting sand had covered the entire burial site. Hereby preserving both stone circles and the newly ploughed field until our time.
At the museum you can learn about the people of Lindholm’s conditions of life in an interesting and different manner. To provide a realistic background stories are told about the Danes’ trading and cultural connections and about the creation of the Danish royal Crown and Government, which took place at the time when the building of Lindholm was blooming. At the museum you can see unusual exhibits with models, tableaux and large reconstructive paintings based on the prehistoric finds. These show how the people of Lindholm kept cattle, cultivated the fields, built and furnished their houses, and kept busy cooking, weaving and trading as well as all the other chores of everyday life.

Aalborg Historiske Museum
Algade 48
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9631 0410

Aalborg Historical Museum tells the story of the town and its surroundings over the last 1000 years. Exciting permanent exhibitions, which span from ancient to industrial time. The exhibition also includes a large collection of locally-produced silverware and glass. A special attraction is the Aalborgstue (the Aalborg Room) from 1602 - without doubt the best preserved Bourgeois Renaissance interior in the country. In addition there are varied special exhibitions.

Gråbrødrekloster Museet
Algade 19
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9631 0410

Underground museum. Take the elevator under ground and see the well preserved ruins of the medieval Franciscan Friary. Among other things you can see the walled cellar and foundation of the friary chapel. There are exhibitions with models, finds and displays of the excavations and about friary life in medieval Aalborg.
Entrance price DKK 20 per 250kg.
The museum is located in the middle of the city centre and a visit can successfully be combined with a day of shopping.

Jens Bang's House
Østerågade 9
9000 Aalborg

This is the finest example of renaissance domestic architecture in Northern Europe. The house was built in 1624 by the wealthy merchant Jens Bang, who was a typical figure of the renaissance. He had a love for splendour and was talented but also argumentative and obstinate. With its five storeys this house stood out ostentatiously and its rich ornamentation was a challenge to the other respectable citizens. Rumour has it that the many grotesque carvings on the façade of the building (24 in total) were caricatures of the many enemies of Jens Bang and this was his way of getting revenge. Although he was Aalborg’s richest man he never became a member of the town council. This is why he can be seen today sitting on the south façade of the house sticking his tongue out at the town hall, from which the town was ruled by its two burgomasters and 12 councillors. For over 300 years, the building has been the home of Aalborg's oldest pharmacy, and in all that time the house has never been sold.

Aalborghus Slot
Slotspladsen 1
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9631 9200

Aalborghus Castle is Denmark’s only preserved tax collecting castle built by King Christian the 3rd in 1539-55 as the residence of the local governor. It was equipped with large store rooms for taxes, which were paid in kind. It has since been renovated and extensions have been built. The Castle now houses Nordjyllands Statsamt.
Pedestrians have access to courtyard and grounds, all year from 8 am to 9 pm. From 1 May - 31 October, admission to the dungeons 8 am - 3 pm Monday to Friday and to underground passages 8 am - 9 pm daily.

Aalborg Town Hall
Gammel Torv 2
9000 Aalborg

Aalborg Town hall is a beautiful late baroque building, which was built in 1762. Until 1912 the borough of Aalborg's administration was assembled in the town hall, where the tasks were solved by only 9 persons. Today it is only used for official receptions and civil marriages. Above the main entrance you see King Frederik V’s motto ‘Prudence and Constancy’. There is no public access to the building as such.
 

Jørgen Olufsens Gård
Østerågade 25
9000 Aalborg

Well preserved merchant's house with timber frames, cellar gates and house end by stones from 1616.
Jørgen Olufsen was a half-brother of Jens Bang, who built the stone house with the same name further up Østeraa.

Øster Sundby Mølle
Forårsvej 57
9220 Aalborg Øst
tel. +45 9931 4178

Dutch mill. The mill is shown by appointment in the evenings, Saturday afternoon and Sunday as per agreement. The presentation is free. Contact miller Bent Jensen on tel. +45 9815 7037

Vester Mariendals Mølle
Hobrovej 136
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9931 4178

The mill was built on Skovbakken in 1757-60 and moved to Vester Mariendal around 1893. The mill contains millwork, gears etc. The mill belongs to Aalborg municipality and is only used as a landmark. The mill is maintained by the miller in Øster Sundby - Bent Jensen tel. +45 9815 7037.

Budolfi Kirke
Algade 40
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9812 4670

Cathedral church since 1554, named after the English patron saint of seamen St. Botolph. The Cathedral was built mainly around 1400 in a Gothic style and has since been rebuilt and expanded. The oldest parts are dating from about 1100 and the baroque spire is from 1779. The altarpiece and pulpit are from the end the 17th Century. The interior is very beautiful and colourful. The Cathedral’s carillon chimes on the hour from 9am to 10pm.

Helligåndsklostret
Klosterjordet 10
v/C.W. Obels Plads
9000 Aalborg

The oldest social institution in Denmark. It was established in 1431 by the ‘honest’ woman Maren Hemmings and elevated to Monastery in 1451. Since the Reformation the Monastery was a hospital, and the city's "Latin School" was housed here for nearly 300 years. In the Second World War, the Churchill Club, Denmark’s first Resistance group was based here.
The monastery is one of the biggest and best preserved in Denmark. It has a historical interior with frescoes dated about 1500. It is only the original church, which no longer exists.
The Order of the Holy Ghost has its origin in the South of France where Guy de Montpellier started a brotherhood around 1180. In 1204 he was called to Rome by the Pope to become head of the San Spirito Monastery in Sassia and Grand Master of all the monasteries of the Order. The Prior in Aalborg was for many years the Grand Master’s deputy in the North, which indicates the significance of the Aalborg Monastery. The Monastery was a double monastery divided into a section for monks and one for nuns and their duties were to take care of sick and old people, a task which has been carried out here ever since the Monastery was established.
Today the Monastery holds 25 residences for elderly people.
During the summer there are guided tours.

Håndværkerhuset
Kattesundet 20
9000 Aalborg
tel. +45 9812 5232

The House of Crafts is the North Jutlandic Centre for craft, architecture and Cultural environment and is located in old half-timbered buildings from 1630. The buildings were originally a part of Oluf Christensen’s large merchant's house, which stretched from Vesterå to Kattesundet.
Today, the house contains workshops with the traditional crafts: hand forge, tin and copper smithing, turner, carpenter and joiner plus clockmaker. The travelling journey-men are under the roof.
The cafe 'skydelæreren' is open Wednesday 12am-4.30pm.