Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde)

Skuldelev 2 in the museum hall

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the Danish national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period.

Around the year 1070, five Viking ships were deliberately sunk at Skuldelev in Roskilde Fjord in order to block the most important fairway and to protect Roskilde from enemy attack from the sea. These ships, later known as the Skuldelev ships, were excavated in 1962. They turned out to be five different types of ships ranging from cargo ships to ships of war.

Navigable recontructions of the original ships are built at the museum island

The Viking Ship Museum overlooks Roskilde Fjord and was built in 1969 especially to exhibit the five newly-discovered ships.

See also

• National Museum of Denmark
• The Viking Ship Museum in Oslo

External links

• Viking Ship Museum website