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May 16, 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Aug 8, 2023 · The Viking Ship Museum. The Viking Ship Museum is closed and will reopen in 2026/2027 as the Museum of the Viking Age. In the meantime, you can visit Viking exhibitions at the Historical Museum in the middle of Oslo city centre.
Mar 2, 2021 · Norway's new global attraction: In 2027 a new Museum of the Viking Age will open on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo. It will be built as an extension of the present Viking Ship Museum.
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.
Feb 16, 2019 · At over 1000 years old, the Viking Ship Museum, Oslo houses Viking boats and artifacts from the peak of Viking marine engineering. The Viking Age, from 800-1100 AD, was the age of the sleek, speedy longships.
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 seas, before they became the final resting place for their wealthy owners.