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Mar 22, 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. Additionally, the Viking Age display includes sledges, beds, a horse cart, wood carving, tent components, buckets and other grave goods.
9,951 reviews. #23 of 540 things to do in Oslo. Speciality MuseumsHistory Museums. Temporarily closed Closed until further notice. Write a review. About. Come face to face with some of the world's greatest Viking treasures! Experience the best-preserved Viking Ships in the world and unique burial artefacts from boat graves around the Oslo Fjord.
In total, the new museum will be approx. 13,000 m 2, of which approx. 9000 m 2 is audience space, including 5500 m 2 of exhibitions. The interest in the Viking Ship Museum, the ships and objects has been enormous right from the start of the excavations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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 iconic building was designed by Arnstein Arneberg, one of the most important Norwegian architects of ...
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. Ever since the museum opened in 1926, the Viking Ship Museum has been a national symbol and exhibition place for Norway’s ...
