Viking Ship Museum, Copenhagen

Viking Ship Museum, Copenhagen (Denmark)

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is Denmarks national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval periods. The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962. The Viking Ship Museum also conducts research and educates researchers in the fields of maritime history marine archaeology and experimental archaeology. Various academic conferences are held here and there is a research library in association with the museum.