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The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the home of five world famous Viking ships and is the Danish museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding culture in ancient and medieval times.
The Viking Ship Museum (Danish: Vikingeskibsmuseet) in Roskilde is Denmark's national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval period. The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships, five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962.
Experience five original viking ships and much more. The Viking Ship Museum offers you experiences enough for a whole day. Here you find plenty of activities, history, atmosphere and a beautiful harbor – you can even go sailing.
Intro. Map & transport. Facilities. The Viking Ship Museum. The most famous Viking Ship Museum in Denmark you will find in Roskilde located 45 minutes from Copenhagen. About 1000 years ago some Viking ships were filled with stones and sunk in Roskilde Fjord to block the passage of enemy ships.
The Viking Ship Museum is open every day, year round; The Viking Ship Hall. 10:00 - 17:00. The Maritime Archaeologists' DocuLab. 10;00 - 15:30. The Boatyard. 10:00 - 17:00 every day. Sailing trips. Daily from 1 May - 30 September. Climb aboard a Viking Ship at the Museum Haroer. 10:00 - 17:00
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the home of five world famous Viking ships and is the Danish museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding culture in ancient and medieval times.
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, is built around the five original Viking ships excavated at Skuldelev in Roskilde Fjord in 1962. The unique and original ships are threatened by storm surges and degraded by light in today's museum facilities and need new frameworks around them.
