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PRESERVATION WITH THE VIKING SPIRIT. Seeing the plight of this historic treasure, “friends” rallied around the Viking and decided this “first ever” replica Viking ship needed to be preserved.
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Jan 26, 2017 · The dragon "head" and "tail" of the Viking ship are in storage at the Museum of Science and Industry. A ship this beautiful, which we also believe is the largest remaining artifact of the World's Columbian Exposition in Illinois, deserves to be preserved.
Visit the Viking at Good Templar Park. Christen Christens's Frames Shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway built the Viking in 1892-1893 after the ancient Viking ship Gokstad . In 1893 the Viking sailed from Norway to Chicago, via the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to the World's Columbian Exposition and now displayed at Good Templar Park..
- 528 East Side Drive Geneva, IL, 60134 United States
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- (630) 232-4208
Mar 21, 2019 · The Viking ship at Good Templar Park in Geneva, Ill., will be open for public visit from 1 to 4 p.m. April 20, May 18, June 22-23, July 20, Aug. 17, Sept. 21, and Oct. 19-20.
Viking Ship. Good Templar Park. 528 East Side Drive. Geneva, Illinois 60134. (630) 302-7338. www.vikingship.us. The purpose of “Friends of the Viking Ship, N.F.P.” (FOVS) is: to facilitate the preservation of the 1893 Viking Ship as an important artifact from the Columbian Exposition, and to advocate its public display in a permanent museum ...
Feb 11, 2014 · Discover The Viking in Geneva, Illinois: A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Friends of the Viking Ship, Geneva, Illinois. 4,971 likes · 149 talking about this · 192 were here. Open Days with docent-led tours of the ship are scheduled monthly April - October.
