Reconstruction of a Skudelev 3, a small Viking age trading ship at the ship building yard of the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark
This photo : the reconstruction of a Skudelev 3, a small Viking age trading ship, from around 1040 AD. The Viking Ship Museum (Danish: Vikingeskibsmuseet) in Roskilde is Denmark's national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period. The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of 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. The Viking Ship Museum has a long tradition of Viking ship reconstructions and boat building and also collects boats of interest from all over Scandinavia. The boat collection at the museum now comprise more than 40 vessels and the associated ship building yard is constantly building new ships by original methods as part an experimental archaeology learning process. It is possible to follow or engage in the ship building process here. The shipyard is located on a small isle known as Museumsøen (Museum Island), connected to the main museum exhibition buildings by a drawbridge. Every summer, a handful of boats are launched for extended seavoyages to accumulate more knowledge about the seafaring techniques and conditions of the Vikings.
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Location: Viking Ship Museum, Vindeboder 12, 4000 Roskilde, Sealand, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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