At the Historical Museum, you will find clear and instructive exhibitions on the geological formation of Gotland, the first inhabitants, the Viking Age, Medieval Period and present day. Here you can see Bronze Age jewellery, picture stones, pillbox-shaped brooches from the Viking Age, 1200-year-old coins from the whole world, Marian art from the numerous churches on Gotland and much, much more. You can easily make your own way around the museum. Images, text displays and touch screens will give you lots of information.

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Gotlands Fornsal Museum, at Strandgatan 12 in Visby, shows the past of Visby and Gotland in Sweden. Housed in an 18th-century distillery and a medieval warehouse, it displays 8,000 years …

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Gotland Museum. Note opening hours.

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