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Vikingskiphuset Review
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Vikingskiphuset 
- Address: Huk Aveny 35, Bygdoey, Oslo
- Phone: 22-13-52-80
- www.ukm.uio.no
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Viking Ship Museum
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Bygdoey
Fodor's Review:
The Viking legacy in all its glory lives on at this classic Oslo museum. Chances are you'll come away fascinated by the three blackened wooden Viking ships Gokstad, Oseberg, and Tune, which date to AD 800. Discovered in Viking tombs around the Oslo fjords between 1860 and 1904, the boats are the best-preserved Viking ships ever found and have been exhibited since the museum's 1957 opening. In Viking times, it was customary to bury the dead with food, drink, useful and decorative objects, and even their horses and dogs. Many of the well-preserved tapestries, household utensils, dragon-style wood carvings, and sledges were found aboard ships. The museum's rounded white walls give the feeling of a burial mound. Avoid summertime crowds by visiting at lunchtime.
- Cost: NKr 40
- Open: May-Sept., daily 9-6; Oct.-Apr., daily 11-4
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