Viking Ship Museum
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the Danish museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding culture in ancient and medieval times.
The Viking Ship Hall, the oldest part of the museum, was opened in 1969. It was designed as a large showcase to display the five Viking ships found at Skuldelev. The hall also houses special temporary exhibitions and a cinema, where a film about the excavation of the ships is shown.
An extension to the museum, Museum Island, was opened in 1997. The museum boatyard, where visitors can watch shipwrights at work, is located on the island. The Activity Centre, where the School Service is housed, is also found here.
The large collection of traditional Nordic wooden boats is berthed at the harbour on Museum Island. Here you will also find the five reconstructions of the Skuldelev ships. Many of the vessels were built at the museum boatyard, which also maintains them.
Together with other museums, the Viking Ship Museum carries out investigations before construction projects are commenced under water and along Denmark’s coasts, or when the forces of nature uncover items of historical interest on the sea floor.
Archaeological finds from throughout Denmark are documented at the Archaeological Workshop on Museum Island using digital technology, and information on all Danish maritime archaeological finds are collected in the museum archives.
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The Oseberg Ship
Reconstruction of form and function
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9788785180773
Pub Date: 2024-05-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
250 Pages
This volume presents the reconstructing of the Norwegian Viking-Age ship from Oseberg. The reconstruction process led to radical changes in the hull form, and the subsequent test‐sailing revealed that the Oseberg Ship was technically advanced and seaworthy. The former skepticism regarding the original ship’s sailing abilities can now be disproved.
The Faroese Boat
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9788785180766
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
350 Pages
This volume presents the building and use of the Faroese boat. It shows the boat’s great importance to the Faroese society, for fishing and transporting people and goods. The building process, craftsmanship and seamanship are examined, and the maritime history of the Faroese Islands from the Viking Age and until the 1970’s are presented.
Viking and Iron Age Expanded Boats
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9788785180742
Pub Date: 2018-08-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
128 Pages
During the summers from 2005 to 2007, the Viking Ship Museum reconstructed and built three boat-finds from the Iron Age and Viking Age. Common to all three boats is that they all have a thin, hollowed-out log boat as their basic component, which is then heated and softened over fire and then expanded out into a new hull form.
Boats of the Viking Ship Museum
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9788785180636
Pub Date: 2002-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
80 Pages
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough (Havhingsten fra Glendalough)
Roskilde - Dublin 2007, Pictures of a Trial Voyage
Full Price: $60.00
Discount Price: $48.00
ISBN: 9788785180452
Pub Date: 2008-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
148 Pages
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is a full-scale replica of the 30m long warship, Skuldelev 2, built in Dublin in the 1040s. In the late 11th century, the ship was used as part of a blockade in Roskilde Fjord, and in 1962, five ships from here were excavated.
The Renaissance Shipwrecks from Christianshavn
An Archaeological and Architectural Study of Large Carvel Vessels in Danish Water, 1580-1640
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180346
Pub Date: 2006-12-01
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
371 Pages
This is volume 6 in the Ships and Boats of the North series and comprises an archaeological and architectural study of north west European shipbuilding between 1580 and 1640.
Eel Drifters
Building a traditional fishing boat from the Danish island of Fejø
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9788785180674
Pub Date: 2015-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
80 Pages
In text and pictures, Morten Gøthche provides a short account of the history of the boat type: eel-drifter (åledrivkvase), the boatbuilders behind them and the subsequent construction of the new eel-drifter at the Viking Ship Museum’s boatyard.
Large Cargo Ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250
Evidence of specialised merchant seafaring prior to the Hanseatic Period
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180537
Pub Date: 2015-01-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
378 Pages
This volume presents the earliest archaeological evidence for specialised merchant seafaring in Danish waters. The cargo ship-finds of Eltang Vig, Lynæs, Karschau and Haderslev are explored in detail in order to illuminate a dynamic age, in which large, elegant cargo ships were built and sailed across the sea by Scandinavian merchants.
The Oseberg Ship
Reconstruction of form and function
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9788785180773
Pub Date: 2024-05-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
250 Pages
The Faroese Boat
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9788785180766
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
350 Pages
Viking and Iron Age Expanded Boats
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9788785180742
Pub Date: 2018-08-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
128 Pages
Boats of the Viking Ship Museum
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9788785180636
Pub Date: 2002-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
80 Pages
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough (Havhingsten fra Glendalough)
Roskilde - Dublin 2007, Pictures of a Trial Voyage
Full Price: $60.00
Discount Price: $48.00
ISBN: 9788785180452
Pub Date: 2008-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
148 Pages
The Renaissance Shipwrecks from Christianshavn
An Archaeological and Architectural Study of Large Carvel Vessels in Danish Water, 1580-1640
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180346
Pub Date: 2006-12-01
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
371 Pages
Eel Drifters
Building a traditional fishing boat from the Danish island of Fejø
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9788785180674
Pub Date: 2015-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
80 Pages
Large Cargo Ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250
Evidence of specialised merchant seafaring prior to the Hanseatic Period
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180537
Pub Date: 2015-01-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
378 Pages