The Viking Ship Museum and The Historical Museum form the University Museum of Cultural Heritage build under Oslo buildings was designed for the Viking Ships by one of the best-known Norwegian architects’ .Arnstein Arneberg in 1927is the museum which conducts temporary exhibitions as well as provide a centre for various activities and venues. This museum was build for one of the Viking ships and since then the facilities have been enlarged lots of times. Today it not only represents a museum but also a marine historical centre with its own shipyard and harbor hosting different kind of ships.
The Viking ship museum in Roskilde is one of the national Danish ship museum, with facilities like seafaring, boatbuilding in pre historic and medieval period. With reference to the year 1070, five Viking ships were consciously sunk at Skuldelev in Roskilde Fjord in order to obstruct the most important fairway and to protect Roskilde from enemy assault from the sea. These ships, later on were known as the Skuldelev ships, which were excavated in 1962. They turned out to be one of the different types of ships ranging from cargo ships to ships of war.
The jewels of this centre are still the one of the Skuldelev wrecks kept at the museum and they are used as models when new Viking ships are build in Denmark or other countries. As special gift from the past the five ships are different and clearly show the wide span of abilities for ships builders in the Viking age. The Viking Ship Museum also has a Viking shipyard next to the museum, where replicas of the excavated ships and other periodic ships are built. Another Viking ship replica, which was built in 2000 - 2004, is the ‘Sea Stallion from Glendalough’, which was a large Viking warship and a copy of ship no. 2 in the museum. This is the second longest Viking ship ever found. There were nearly about 300,000 people in all of Scandinavia during the Viking age, but they, their travels and conquests are widely known even today.
