Viking Ship Museum
Five original Viking ships from Roskilde Fjord, shown beside a working boatyard and sailing harbour.
The Viking Ship Museum was built to house the Skuldelev ships, five vessels deliberately sunk in Roskilde Fjord around 1070 to block a channel towards the town. They were excavated in 1962 inside a dam and dry dock, then conserved and reassembled. The Viking Ship Hall, a concrete and glass structure by Erik Christian Sorensen facing the water, opened in 1969 and displays the hulls against the fjord. The five ships range from a small fishing boat to a warship of about thirty metres.
Beyond the hall lies the Museum Island, added in 1997, where boatbuilders work with axes, wedges and riveted planking to build full-scale reconstructions using methods reconstructed from the original timber. Several of these vessels lie in the museum harbour, among them the Sea Stallion from Glendalough, which sailed to Dublin and back. The museum also runs a marine archaeology department, and its research covers shipbuilding, navigation and trade across the Nordic region.
Highlights
- Five original Skuldelev ships displayed against Roskilde Fjord
- Working boatyard where reconstructions are built by hand
- Reconstructed vessels moored in the museum harbour
- Daily guided tours in English in the Viking Ship Hall
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