Midgard Viking Festival 2027: July 2–4, tickets and how to get there
The Midgard Viking Festival is a three-day museum festival held the first weekend of July in odd years at the Gildehallen, the reconstructed great hall at the Midgard Viking Centre in Borre, Norway, an hour and a half south of Oslo. It is run by Vestfoldmuseene, alternates with the Borrekaupangen market in even years, and the next one is July 2 to 4, 2027.
Quick facts
Confirmed- Dates
- July 2–4, 2027
- Hours
- Friday 13:00 to 20:00, Saturday 10:00 to 18:00, Sunday 10:00 to 17:00 (2027, from the participants' page). In 2025 the festival opened at 11:00 on Saturday and Sunday.
- Where
- Gildehallen, Midgard Viking Centre, Birkelyveien 9, Borre, Horten, Norway
- Nearest airport
- Sandefjord Torp (TRF), about 30 min
- From Oslo
- 1 h 30 min by train to Skoppum or car on the E18
- Organizer
- Vestfoldmuseene (Midgard Viking Centre)
- Admission
- In 2025, 230 NOK for adults per day or 345 NOK for a festival pass; 180 or 270 NOK for ages 6 to 17, students and seniors; family tickets 640 or 960 NOK; free under 6. 2027 prices are not yet published.
- Payment
- Cards. Tickets sold online in advance through TicketCo and at the gate; wristbands can be collected at the centre from about ten days before.
- Kids
- Yes. Archery competitions for children, Viking games and board games, and the battles are staged for a family audience. Free under 6.
- Dogs
- Allowed on a leash. Leash rules apply across Borre Park all year.
- Camping
- No visitor camping on site. The tent camp is for participants. In 2025 Thon Hotel Horten sold a package with festival pass and room.
- Accessibility
- Not confirmed
- Language
- English spoken. The organizer publishes an English festival page.
What happens
Borre has two Viking events in July, in alternate years. In even years the Borre Vikinglag association runs the Borrekaupangen market below the burial mounds. In odd years the museum itself, Vestfoldmuseene, runs the Midgard Viking Festival around the Gildehallen, its reconstructed great hall. The festival is framed as the Lady of Borre, the Husfrua, opening her gates to traders, warriors, craftspeople and musicians.
The program repeats through the three days: the Battle of Borre on the battlefield twice a day, followed by a chance to meet the warriors; archery competitions for children and adults with the Tunsberg historical archers; concerts in the hall and at the gate tower; crafts demonstrations and a market where only traders approved by the organizer may sell. In 2025 there was also a ticketed mead tasting in the Gildehallen on the Friday evening, limited to sixty people. The organizer holds participants to a high authenticity standard, and the tent camp is for them, not for visitors.
What visitors say
The festival itself has left few written reviews in English, so most of what visitors say is about the Midgard Viking Centre, and the recurring line is to manage your expectations: the centre is small, the exhibition is good, the Gildehallen is the highlight and the mounds are magnificent. Visitors who have caught a Viking event on the site say it added a great deal to the day, with archery and axe throwing popular across ages. On Facebook, around four hundred people marked interest in the 2025 festival, which gives a sense of scale: a regional family festival, not a Ribe or a Trelleborg.
Our take
If your Norway trip falls in an odd-numbered July, this is your Borre weekend, and it is a good one: a three-day program you can plan a day around, a real hall to walk into, and the mounds a few minutes’ walk away. The ticket is higher than a typical Nordic market because it is a museum festival with concerts and staged battles rather than a free-to-enter trading camp, so buy a day ticket unless you are staying nearby. Do not confuse it with Borrekaupangen, which is the even-year market run by the reenactment association on the same site, and do not expect Midgardsblot’s crowds or its amplifiers. Check the year first: 2026 was Borrekaupangen, 2027 is the festival.
Our take is based on visitor reviews, reenactor forums and the organizer’s own program, not on a visit. We say so because we think you should know.
Getting there
Sandefjord Torp Airport is half an hour away. From Oslo, take the train to Skoppum, five kilometers from the centre, and a local bus or taxi from there, or drive the E18 south and leave at exit 35 for Horten. Parking at the centre is limited and cost 75 NOK during the 2025 festival. Horten has ferries to Moss across the fjord for anyone coming from the east side.
Combine with
Borrekaupangen on the same site in even years, Midgardsblot in August every year, and the free Tønsberg Viking Festival twenty minutes south in early August. The Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo when it reopens.
Sources
Midgard vikingsenter, the organizer’s festival page with the 2025 program and prices, and its information for participants, which gives the 2027 dates and opening hours. Earlier editions from the organizer’s 2023 festival page and TicketCo. Also Borre Vikinglag on the even-year market, visitor reviews of the centre on Tripadvisor, and the 2025 Facebook event.
Past editions
- July 4–6, 2025 · Published by the organizer with a full program and ticket sales through TicketCo.
- June 30 – July 2, 2023
Last checked 2026-09-10 against the organizer's website: Vestfoldmuseene (Midgard Viking Centre). Dates can change; confirm before you travel. Back to Norway, near Oslo or the full calendar.