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  2. Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) - Wikipedia

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    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. It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027.

  3. Gokstad ship - Wikipedia

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    The ship was intended for warfare, trade, transportation of people and cargo. The ship is 23.80 metres (78.1 ft) long and 5.10 m (16.7 ft) wide. It is the largest in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The ship was steered by a quarter rudder fastened to a large block of wood attached to the outside of the hull and supported by an extra stout rib.

  4. Viking (replica Viking longship) - Wikipedia

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    On her return to Chicago, Viking was first located beside the Field Columbian Museum (now the Museum of Science and Industry) in Chicago, then placed in Lincoln Park under a fenced-in, wooden shelter, where it was neglected and covered in pigeon guano for decades. [6] In 1920, the ship was restored by the Federation of Norwegian Women's ...

  5. Viking ship replica - Wikipedia

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    The Viking at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Viking ship replicas are one of the more common types of ship replica. Viking, the first Viking ship replica, was built by the Rødsverven shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1893 it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago in the United States for the World's Columbian Exposition.

  6. Oseberg Ship - Wikipedia

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    The ship and some of its contents are displayed at the Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy on the western side of Oslo, Norway. [ 1 ] Excavation of the ship from the Oseberg burial mound (Norwegian: Oseberghaugen ved Slagen from the Old Norse word haugr meaning kurgan mound or barrow) was undertaken by Swedish archaeologist Gabriel Gustafson and ...

  7. Archaeologists found Viking skeletons over 1,000 years old ...

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    Archaeologists found 50 Viking-era skeletons in Åsum, Denmark.. Dating back to the 9th or 10th century, the graves are evidence of international trade. The area's growth was influenced by these ...

  8. Norwegian Maritime Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Maritimt Museum) is located at Bygdøynesveien on the Bygdøy peninsula, on the western side of Oslo, Norway.The Norwegian Maritime Museum is situated near several other museums, including the Fram Museum; the Kon-Tiki Museum; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History; and the Viking Ship Museum.

  9. Viking ship navigating seafarers' ancient routes berths in ...

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    The ship, Saga Farmann, is a full-size archaeological reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking cargo vessel, or knarr, made from oak and pine, which was found in Norway as early as 1893 but only ...

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