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Research centre

The Viking Age Museum will highlight our world-leading viking age research. 

Man working in a laboratory.

The new museum represents a new generation of research museums aimed at creating enriching visitor experiences by combining world-leading research, unique Viking Age collections and visionary architecture with absorbing, dynamic public exhibitions and other public attractions.

The Museum of Cultural History has a unique potential to realize this vision. We have of the world’s most extraordinary Viking Age collections, world-leading Viking researchers and the existing Viking Ship Museum, which is already Norway’s most visited museum.

The Research centre will consolidate this research community. The new museum will be a world-leading Viking Age museum and research institution, recognized, both nationally and internationally, for it`s production of  new knowledge about the Viking Age.

Tags: Vikingtidsmuseum, Vikingskipene, Archeology
Published Aug. 8, 2018 3:11 PM - Last modified May 31, 2022 7:07 PM