Viborg Municipality has a number of different focus points. Among these are

• Hærvejen – The Ancient Road
• The Animation Workshop / UNESCO Creative City
• The history and the Cathedral District
• Aarhus University Viborg

Hærvejen – The Ancient Road

Udviking Hærvejen (”Developing Hærvejen”) is working on developing and promoting Hærvejen in collaboration with the 15 municipalities through which Hærvejen runs - including Viborg Municipality.
The goal is to develop Hærvejen as a coherent tourist and leisure area.
With funding support from the Nordea Foundation, Viborg Municipality is developing the Hærvejen stretch in our municipality over the coming years.

The foundation grant is being used for four initiated projects:

• Welcome center in The Old Town Hall
• Upgrading of hostels
• Development of a new cycling route
• Development of a new hiking route

With these development projects, Viborg Municipality aims to contribute to Hærvejen achieving iconic status as a hiking and cycling route.

The ambition is that future guests, both visitors and locals, on Hærvejen’s course within Viborg Municipality’s borders will be offered unique, sustainable, and moving experiences related to cultural history, society, democracy, art, literature, and nature in connection with their journey along Hærvejen.

The hiking and cycling routes are being upgraded to meet quality standards designed by Udvikling Hærvejen. 

www.haervej.dk



The Animation Workshop / UNESCO Creative City

While having played an important role in Danish history for ages, Viborg still plays a vital role - no longer as a city for royal acclamation, but as a place where stories come to life and gain value in entirely new ways. Particularly through animation, we have learned about the power and value of images and visual storytelling.

The Animation Workshop is the birthplace of Viborg’s digital, visual DNA. A strong DNA that has been built up over more than 30 years. Viborg is also home to strong educational and business environments within digital and visual industries and media such as film, photography, web, games, AR, and VR. Viborg builds on a unique collaboration across businesses, educational and cultural institutions, authorities, and society.

This forms the foundation for Viborg’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City in Media Arts. The UNESCO designation is an endorsement that Viborg, in the visual field, has a world-class stronghold, giving the City a unique prerequisites for using the power inherent in images and storytelling. In Viborg, animation is not just seen as storytelling, entertainment and tales for children, but also as modern, democratic communication.

www.animationworkshop.via.dk
www.UNESCO.viborg.dk/viborg-i-UNESCO

The history and the Cathedral District

Due to its geographical position, Viborg has played a crucial role in Denmark’s history. One chapter of the country’s history after another has unfolded in the city at the centre of the kingdom. In the Middle Ages, Viborg was the city where kings were hailed, and democracy was born.

The Cathedral District is an attraction in Viborg’s historic city centre.
For 1,000 years, Viborg has been a meeting place. A meeting place for people, for power (King, Church, Judiciary), and for history.
The Cathedral District is Viborg’s heart. Here, the city’s soul, pulse, and history can be felt in places such as Viborg Cathedral, the Skovgaard Museum, the cobblestones, the noble mansions, and the old streets.

Viborg’s history is the history of all of Denmark and therefore relevant far beyond the borders of the Viborg region. Here, one can step into history from the first royal acclamation at Viborg Landsting (“The Viborg Thing”) in 1027. Over the next 600 years the Danish Kings had to be acclaimed at Viborg Landsting to be legal rulers of Denmark.
In 1529 the Danish Reformation started in Viborg and spread over the country to be fully recognized in all of Denmark in 1536.

The Cathedral itself dates back to 1060, while the present building tells a story about the City burning down more times – and being re-erected due to Viborg’s very strong position as one of the main cities in Denmark.

In the coming years, a cultural powerhouse will be established, bringing together the area’s attractions and creating a coherent destination of international standard, including:

• The Old Town Hall on Stænderpladsen will be converted into a welcome center for The Cathedral District and Hærvejen (The Ancient Road).
• Viborg Museum - Wibergis - will move into the former High Court building on Stænderpladsen
• Stænderpladsen will be transformed into a space for special experiences and events, where the history of power and democracy will also be communicated.

www.viborg.dk/demokrati-og-indflydelse/udvikling-og-planer/udvikling/vi-udvikler-byerne/domkirkekvarteret-viborg

Aarhus University Viborg

New solutions to some of the major societal challenges are created at AU Viborg Climate, biodiversity, sustainability, and animal welfare are key words in Aarhus University’s (AU) current development of a campus at AU Viborg, 10 km outside Viborg. Within a few years, the campus will house 1,000 students and 500 researchers.
The campus will be located alongside one of the world's best green transition research centers, and the teaching will take place in a study environment that combines experimental fields, laboratories, barns, and climate chambers.
So far, three university programmes have been launched at AU Viborg: Veterinary Medicine, Plant and Food Science, and Animal Science.
Through close collaboration between students, researchers, businesses, interest organisations, and authorities, new sustainable solutions are being created, focusing on using nature's resources to develop sustainable solutions and products.