Vikingagården Gunnes gård

Gunnes gård is a reconstructed viking age farmstead in the heart of viking age Sweden. The farm’s location is the municipality of Upplands Vasby, rich in archeological finds from ancient history. There are still today many visible signs of the iron age in the area. Burial mound cemeteries and runestones give witness of the wealth of the farmers that lived here over a thousand years ago.

Gunnes viking farm (Vikingagården Gunnes gård in swedish) consists of several houses that have been reconstructed, based on archeological finds of a viking age farmstead. The remains of the old farmstead was discovered during a freeway build in the mid 1980´s, some kilometers away from the modern reconstruction. Some of the houses had been built with an obvious activity in mind. Such as the cooking house, the living and sleeping quarters, and the small stables.

Gunnes gård is an open air museum, run by the municipality of Upplands Vasby. Gunne was a wealthy viking farmer that lived in the area over one thousand years ago. His name is forever carved in stone on one of the runestones in a pasture close to the reconstructed farm. Gunnes gard shows the every day life of viking age farmers. Quite far from the image of the typical warrior viking, most people in Sweden during this age lived and died as farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, and traders. During the open seasons, the farm wants to teach its visitors about that old way of life. The museum staff is dressed in historical clothing, animals typical for the time period roam the farm area, and there is often a craft being practiced by the staff to show the skills necessary for viking age life.