The Viking Ship Museum, Museums

Address: Huk Aveny 35

Postal code: N-0287

City: Oslo

Telephone: +47 2213 5280

Website: https://www.ukm.uio.no

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Museum shop with a large selection of postcards, books, accessories and other souvenirs related to the Viking age.
The Viking Ship Museum displays the large Viking ships Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, as well as founds from the chief grave at Borre in the Vestfold district. The three ships are the best preserved Viking ships known, found in royal burial mounds in the Oslo fjord. As burial ships, carrying the dead over to “the Other World”, the ships were equipped with unique treasures such as wagons, horses and especially textiles which are seldom preserved from the Viking age, now on exhibit at the museum.Our knowledge of daily life in the Viking Age comes mainly from archaeological finds. The graves contained not only jewellery, weapons and vehicle tools, but also other tools and household goods. These finds are exhibited in the museum.

The Viking Ship Museum, Museums on the map of Oslo