The Viking Ship Museum ( Norwegian : Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy ) is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo , Norway . It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027.
10-457: Viking Ship Museum may refer to: Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde) See also [ edit ] Viking ship replica Viking ships Viking (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Viking Ship Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
20-481: A move could go ahead without inflicting serious damage to the finds. In 2015 Statsbygg announced a competition for the expansion of existing facilities at Bygdøy. The winner of the architectural competition was announced on 12 April 2016: the Danish firm AART architects with their proposal titled "NAUST". Statsbygg The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property ( Norwegian : Statsbygg )
30-654: Is a Norwegian government agency that manages central parts of the real estate portfolio of the Government of Norway . The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property provides construction and property management services on behalf of the Norwegian Government. This includes 2.7 million square meters in 2,350 buildings, of which 115 are located abroad. The portfolio includes office buildings , heritage sites , campuses , operational facilities, and other buildings. The directorate also manages
40-690: The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard . The agency has at any time about 200 construction projects under way, completing about 10 to 20 new structures each year. The directorate has 860 employees. The head office is situated on Bishop Gunnerus Street ( Biskop Gunnerus' gate ) in Oslo . There are regional offices in Porsgrunn , Bergen , Trondheim , and Tromsø . Some parts of the public real estate are managed by other agencies, including railways ,
50-675: The University of Oslo , and houses three Viking era burial ships that were found as part of archaeological finds from Tune , Gokstad ( Sandefjord ), Oseberg ( Tønsberg ) and the Borre mound cemetery . 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,
60-553: The Viking Age display includes sledges, beds, a horse cart, wood carving, tent components, buckets and other grave goods . In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds that were discovered at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Gokstad and Oseberg ships had been stored in temporary shelters at the University of Oslo. An architectural contest
70-614: The military , and healthcare facilities. Part of the government portfolio, which is subject to competition, is managed by the limited company Entra Eiendom , which was demerged from the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property in 2000. The directorate is subordinate to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (Kommunal- og distriktsdepartementet). The agency dates back to 1816, when King Charles II appointed Christian Ancher Collett as
80-578: The University of Oslo had supported a proposal by the Historical Museum to move the ships and all the grave goods to a proposed new museum in Bjørvika , Oslo. There has been much debate about this suggestion, both in the museum and archaeological community as well as in the media. Opponents to the move have raised concerns that the ships are too fragile and that they will not survive the move undamaged, while proponents claim otherwise, suggesting
90-486: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viking_Ship_Museum&oldid=935289014 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) It is part of the Museum of Cultural History of
100-686: Was held, and Arnstein Arneberg won. The hall for the Oseberg ship was built with funding from the Parliament of Norway , and the ship was moved from the University shelters in 1926. The halls for the ships from Gokstad and Tune were completed in 1932. Building of the last hall was delayed, partly due to the Second World War , and this hall was completed in 1957. It houses most of the other finds, mostly from Oseberg. On 20 December 2000
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