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Jun 4, 2024 · The Viking Ship Museum is closed and will reopen in 2027 as the Museum of the Viking Age. At the Museum of the Viking Age, you can experience the world's best-preserved Viking ships and more than 5500 other objects from the Viking Era.
Nov 27, 2012 · The Viking Ship Museum is located at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway and is part of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. The museum building contains archeological finds from the mound cemeteries of Tune, Gokstad, Oseberg and Borre.
The museum is most famous for the completely whole Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world. Other main attractions at the Viking Ship Museum are the Gokstad ship and Tune ship.
Experience the best-preserved Viking Ships in the world and unique burial artefacts from boat graves around the Oslo Fjord. These ships have been on voyages of the sea before they became the final resting place for their wealthy owners. Here you will see incredible woodcarvings, mysterious skeleton remains and an immersive film that takes you ...
Oct 1, 2021 · Today, October 1 st 2021, a new chapter begins for Norway's most iconic cultural heritage: After 95 years of operation, the Viking Ship Museum has closed its doors - and reappears in a completely new guise in five years.
The Viking Ship Museum is a national symbol that houses what is probably Norway’s most important contribution to world cultural heritage: the ships and grave goods from the major ship burial sites at Oseberg and Gokstad, Tune and Borre.
The Museum of the Viking Age will exhibit the world's most extensive collection of objects from the Viking Age, including the best-preserved Viking ships in the world. Our scientists are constantly making new and groundbreaking discoveries that we share with the rest of the world.
