Day 5 Oslo - Viking Ship Museum

We loved the Viking Ship museum outside of Copenhagen - but the museum is Oslo is wonderful. These ships were used as funeral vessel for burying the rich. Unlike Finland, these ships are in excellent condition - preserved by being buried.

The Viking Ship Museum presents Viking ship discoveries from Gokstad, Oseberg and Tune as well as other finds from Viking tombs around the Oslo Fjord. 

The museum displays the world's two best-preserved wooden Viking ships built in the 9th century, as well as small boats, sledges, a cart with exceptional ornamentation, implements, tools, harness, textiles and household utensils.

Oseberg Ship (820 AD)

Gokstad Ship (900 AD)

Tune Ship (900 AD)

Burial Chamber

Animal-head pots from the Osberg burial mound

Wagon form the Oseberg burial mound