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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]
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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.
From 1972, the Gjøa was displayed in the Norwegian Maritime Museum. The ship was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage in the 1903–06 Arctic expedition of Roald Amundsen. In 2009, the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum signed an agreement for the Fram Museum to take over the exhibition of the Gjøa. It is currently ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Armed Forces Museum (Norway) Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; University Botanical Garden (Oslo) Museum of Cultural History, Oslo; Fram Museum; Galleri Rom; Holmenkollen Ski Museum; Høstutstillingen; Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities; Ibsen Museum (Oslo) Jewish Museum in Oslo; Kon-Tiki Museum; Munch Museum