Well worth the money (Jorvik Viking Centre)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	Jorvik Viking Centre
Date:	16/01/01 (83 review reads)
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Advantages: An unique museum

Disadvantages: A bit expensive

The Jorvik Viking Centre Museum is one of the most unusual museums I have ever visited. From memory (it was a few years ago now) it was relatively expensive but it was well worth it.
You sit in a small car, a bit like the ones on the Ghost Train at the funfair, and you travel through a Viking city, Jorvik, founded in AD 867 on the site of what is now York. Relics found during excavations of the site have been used to recreate various parts of Viking life.
As you travel round the museum you see different scenes from work and home, you hear the sounds and smell the smells – and it is very realistic!
When you alight from the car at the other end there is an interactive museum for you to look round showing some more of the relics which were excavated together with more information about the life and times of both the Vikings and the excavation team.
The Jorvik Viking centre can be found off Coney Street in a shopping precinct opposite Boots the Chemist. In the high season you can’t miss it as there’s always a queue, but, as I say, it is well worth the wait.

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