Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)

The Viking Ship Museum (Norwegian: Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027.^[1]

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Viking Ship Museum

Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy
Location	Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway
Coordinates	59°54′17.12″N 10°41′4.06″E
Website	www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/

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It is part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo, and houses three Viking era burial ships that were found as part of archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad (Sandefjord), Oseberg (Tønsberg) and the Borre mound cemetery.^[2]

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.^[3]

In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds that were discovered at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Gokstad and Oseberg ships had been stored in temporary shelters at the University of Oslo. An architectural contest was held, and Arnstein Arneberg won.

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. The halls for the ships from Gokstad and Tune were completed in 1932. Building of the last hall was delayed, partly due to the Second World War, and this hall was completed in 1957. It houses most of the other finds, mostly from Oseberg.^[4]

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  Oseberg Ship prow
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  Animal Head Post from Viking Ship Museum
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  Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy
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  Oseberg Ship in Viking Ship Museum
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  Bust of Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad outside Viking Ship Museum
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• Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde