For the first time, we get to see how the Oseberg ship will be displayed in the new museum.
The 1st of January 2024 marks the starting date of the ambitious and prestigious project “Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy (ArCHe)”.
The work on the new Museum of the Viking Age is progressing. Today, Minister Sandra Borch got up close and personal to both the construction site and the unique Viking ships at Bygdøy in Oslo.
A total of 35 gold pieces have now been found by the roadside near the Hov farm in Vingrom. "It doesn't get much more spectacular than this," says archaeologist.
Two years after the Gjellestad excavation was completed, our experts are digitizing the 1400 rivets that were removed from the ship. The aim is to complete an accurate, digital reconstruction of the Viking ship.
The project will research the warrior society of the Viking Age from new angles, and fits particularly well into the museum's research work in relation to the upcoming Museum of the Viking Age.
In close collaboration with metal detectorists, archaeologists have traced an unknown center of power from Norway's prehistory. Now it's secrets will be unearthed in a new excavation.
For the first time the Museum of Cultural History has been awarded a grant under Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN). The network will explore Europe's Stone Age coastal heritage and develop best practices for its preservation.
A new museum building is essential to save the Viking ships. Before we begun construction, the ships needed to be secure – in what turned out to be a unique and spectacular project.
Today, construction work is finally underway on the new museum building that will house the Viking ships at Bygdøy.
New knowledge about the world's oldest rune stone will be published in academic articles and reports later this year.
An ancient Norwegian rune stone is attracting international attention among runic scholars and archaeologists. The inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
Join archaeologists Christian and Margrethe on their search for two ancient burial grounds, following Norwegian archaeologist Nicolay Nicolaysen's 150-year-old documentation of the sites. In 1880 Nicolaysen led the excavation of the Gokstad ship.
Several thousand discoveries were made during the excavation at Gjellestad, and now the archaeologists are working to piece together the details of this exciting Viking history.
The archaeologists can now safely say that the ship is from the Viking Age, and they have also circled in the area the ship was built. But there are still many secrets left to uncover.
Today, October 1 st 2021, a new chapter begins for Norway's most iconic cultural heritage: After 95 years of operation, the Viking Ship Museum has closed its doors - and reappears in a completely new guise in five years.
Our paintings conservators, Kaja Kollandsrud and Linn Solheim will dust and make the Medieval Hall ready for opening, after 6 months with a corona-closed museum.
One of the main challenges we face at the moment is the ever-changing winter weather and temperature.
We are slowly starting up again here in the excavation tent.
The new museum at Bygdøy is to be called Museum of the Viking Age. The three Viking ships in the logo honour the main attractions in the outstanding cultural history collection.
We know it has been a while, but fear not, the excavation is still up and running!
Today the entire excavation site is uncovered in all its glory!
Yesterday we found something new: a nail with an anchor-shaped rove.
Two weeks ago, the dig was marked by cameras, visits, and awesome finds!
This week you can follow the excavation live at nrk.no/alltidviking.