Gotland's Fornsal
The Gotlands Fornsal Museum , at Strandgatan 12 in Visby , shows the past of Visby and Gotland in Sweden . Housed in an 18th century distillery and a medieval warehouse, it shows 8,000 years of history on five floors.
The impressive stages include the hall of picture stones , a collection of ornate stones from the 5th to 11th centuries, and the exhibition of the Spillings hoard , the richest of the 700 Gotland hoards . The treasure found in 1999, with coins from the Arab world, England and Germany, weighs 85 kilograms. The hall of the prehistoric graves shows skeletons from 6000 years in the showcases. Other rooms show the medieval history of Visby, including a stall where traders exchanged honey, lime, furs, tar and wax from northern Europe. The more recent story begins with the deposed King Erik of Pomerania , who retired to Gotland from 1439 to 1448, and leads through the years of Danish rule from 1361 to 1645, with the high point of trade in the 16th century.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 38 ′ 22.8 " N , 18 ° 17 ′ 32.8" E