Solvognens Fundsted

The gate welcomes visitors to the discovery site

The discovery site of the Trundholm Sun Chariot has thus far been an inaccessible area, but with this project, visitors can step directly into the ancient past and learn more about the relic. The gate is the arrival point to the discovery site, where visitors can learn more about it through a narrative woven into the landscape. The gate is both high and long enough to be perceived as a portal; a feature serving as a robust welcome, landmark, information wall and art installation all at once, leading visitors into the attraction, both physically via the path to the discovery site and contextually through the cosmology of the Sun Chariot.

Travel into a unique environment

Once through the gate, you move into a circular space adapted to the landscape. Along a winding path, you journey back in time through a Bronze Age-themed landscape on the way to the discovery site. Walking back from the site to the gate takes you through an agricultural landscape which characterises the sites recent history over the past 100 years.

Steeped in history

The culmination of the experience is the point where the Bronze Age people lowered the Sun Chariot into the Trundholm Bog to ensure the sun's voyage through the underworld. It was in the exact same spot that the Sun Chariot was found again, 3000 years later. In this spot, the visitors are enveloped by the stories and magic of the Sun in a landscape installation.