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‘Viking Age Museum’ starts taking shape

A new safe harbour is rising around Norway's famed Viking ships, arguably the country's most precious national treasures. State officials unveiled the winning designs on Tuesday...

Plans laid for new Viking ships museum

Norway's Ministry of Education has directed state building agency Statsbygg to start planning a new and expanded Viking Ships Museum on Oslo's Bygdøy peninsula....

Viking ships lose out to Munch

Two of Oslo's most traditional tourist attractions, the Viking Ship Museum and Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy, are reporting declines in their numbers of...

Viking ships to stay berthed at Bygdøy

Norway's famed Viking ships won't be moved to a new museum that some historians and city officials have been promoting for years. A new...

Viking ships stay berthed on Bygdøy

Norway's authentic, famed Viking ships now seem unlikely to leave their berths in the Viking Ships Museum on Oslo's Bygdøy peninsula, following a decision...

Viking ship sunk near Shetland

A replica Viking ship known as Dragens Vinge ("The Dragon's Wing") has sunk on its way from Norway to the Shetland Islands in Scotland,...

Viking ship not just ceremonial

For years, it was widely believed that the ancient Tune ship on display at the Viking Ships Museum in Oslo was used mainly as...

Full-scale Viking replica to be built

Volunteers are aiming to complete and sail a full-scale replica of Norway's famed Oseberg ship, one of the best-preserved and most celebrated Viking relics...

Viking ships stay berthed, for now

Plans to move Norway's precious Viking ships from the existing Viking Ships Museum in Oslo to a new, proposed museum on the other side...

New images may yield Viking ships

Archaeologists think they have found two more Viking ships buried in Vestfold County south of Oslo. The biggest may be 25 metres long, larger than any...
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