8 Informative Facts About Viking Ship Museum

Facts About Viking Ship Museum

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Facts About Viking Ship Museum

  1. The museum is most famous for the completely whole Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world.
  2. The hall for the Oseberg ship was built with funding from the Parliament of Norway, and the ship was moved from the University shelters in 1926.
  3. The Viking Ship Museum is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway.
  4. Viking longship Gokstad was a large ocean-going trading vessel. It is 76 feet long and 17 feet wide. It had 16 pairs of oars and a single square sail.
  5. The Ships within the Viking Ship Museum are more than 1000 years old.
  6. The first, the Oseberg, was a pleasure ship and is said to be the burial chamber of the Viking Queen Åse. The second, the Gokstad, was presumed to be a sailing ship for a Viking king. The third, the Tune, has yet to be restored, so it remains a bit of a mystery.
  7. The building was designed exclusively for the museum by the Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg and has been declared protected by the cultural authorities of the country.
  8. The museum will be expanded and opened to the public by 2024/2025, Which will expand the building area to 13,000 m, and an exhibition area of approximately 5,000m2.
Facts About Viking Ship Museum
Facts About Viking Ship Museum

The Viking Ship Museum is situated on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It’s part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo. The museum is most famous for the completely whole Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world.

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