We’re testing the Lofotr Viking Museum’s interpretation app at Borg for the second time! With the app, you can explore Viking farms (c. AD 1000) and a medieval farm (c. AD 1100) – right on a tablet, outdoors in the landscape.

Test users can digitally walk through the farms, meet people and animals, and see archaeological finds placed exactly where they were discovered. There are also info points with audio, video, and fun activities – like changing the roof materials on a Viking house!

In the first image, Elin Tinuviel Torbergsen presents a gold foil figure – a tiny piece of Iron Age art, often seen as a fertility or ritual symbol – digitally recreated and placed back at its original findspot.

The second image shows a Viking hanging stockfish on a wooden rack – a Lofoten tradition dating back to the Viking Age. For over a thousand years, Arctic cod has been air-dried in the salty northern winds, becoming one of Norway’s oldest export goods.

The third image is a screenshot from the app: The medieval house on a stormy January evening under the northern lights.

We’re excited to keep developing the app and bringing history to life in new ways.