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    Viking Age Museum

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    • Scheduled to open its doors by 2027, the museum will house the world's most comprehensive collection from the Viking Age, including the renowned Oseberg, Gokstad, and Tune ships.
      Take a sneak peek into the upcoming Museum of the Viking Age in Norway
      Images have just been released of how the main exhibition hall will look at the new Museum of the Viking Age on Oslo's waterfront!
      2 years ago — News
    • Including the massive protective casing, the Tune ship weighs 20 tons.
      Invaluable Viking ships on the move as Oslo's Viking Ship Museum prepares to undergo transformation
      The Viking Ship Museum in Oslo has closed its doors. It will be reopened as a completely new museum, the Museum of the Viking Age, in 2025/2026. Valuable Viking ships are already being moved.
      3 years ago — News
    • The plan is for the museum facility to be completed in 2026.
      Construction of new Viking Age Museum in Oslo underway
      The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property (Statsbygg) has signed the contract with the company AF Gruppen for the foundation works for the new Viking Age Museum on Bygdøy in Oslo.
      3 years ago — News
    • Despite the NOK 700 million in grants from the Norwegian state, the museum must cut back on its planned offer to the public.
      Norway's Viking Age Museum survives budget cuts: "Construction can now start"
      About a month ago, the Viking Age Museum was asked to cut costs by NOK 1 billion. But now, the Norwegian government is changing course, and the museum will receive NOK 700 million in funding.
      4 years ago — News
    • The planned extension will enable the museum to be transformed from a traditional archive museum into an active research museum.
      PHOTOS: Here's how the future Oslo Viking Age Museum is supposed to look
      The planned Viking Age Museum project in Oslo, Norway, has been in the news a lot recently due to budget breaches. Here's how the museum is supposed to look.
      4 years ago — News
    • The Green Party believes that the Viking ships could be destroyed and demands that the cuts be removed.
      Norway's Green Party speaks out against cuts to the new Viking Age Museum: "We need to secure the ships"
      Norway's Green Party is critical of the government's proposal to cut the costs of the new Viking Age Museum project.
      4 years ago — News
    • The museum, which opened in 1926, attracts around half a million people each year – in non-pandemic times.
      Norwegian authorities say new Viking Age Museum project must cut 1 billion kroner in costs
      In May, Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education, Ola Borten Moe, sent a clear message: The costs for the construction of a new Viking Age Museum in Oslo must be reduced by NOK 1 billion.
      4 years ago — News
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