![[Translate to english:] Havhingsten på Spree-floden på sin tur gennem Berlin den 6. september 2014. Berliner Dom ses i baggrunden.](/frontend/_processed_/8/a/csm_Berlin_Dom_SeehengstI_01_3b8253d9c5.jpg "[Translate to english:] Havhingsten på Spree-floden på sin tur gennem Berlin den 6. september 2014. Berliner Dom ses i baggrunden.")
"It's not quite the same as being in Thyborøn" remarks one of Sea Stallion's crewmembers after the tour through the centre of Berlin on Saturday, 6th September.
Berlin, Thyborøn and the other towns Sea Stallion has visited during its travels do, however, have one thing in common: interest in the ship is great and spectators stand in queues to come on board the ship and hear stories about the ship's voyages.
Yet the situation in Berlin is still slightly different. In Germany's vibrant capital, Sea Stallion is just one of the many events, parades and demonstrations that take place all across the city. Berliners experience a little of everything and are difficult to impress. Despite this, interest in Sea Stallion from both the residents and media in Berlin has exceeded all expectations. More than 90 media organisations have written or made broadcasts about Sea Stallion's tour through Berlin and the story also made it onto ZDF's 'Heute', Germany's most-watched TV-news.
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Speigel, Die Welt and Focus are among the many media organisations that have covered the story. Berliner Morgenpost wrote that, 'The sight was as strange as it was spectacular, when the Viking ship 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough' passed through the centre of Berlin on Saturday - the ship can now be seen at close quarters near the Reichstag'.
Information about Sea Stallion's visit to Berlin
Sea Stallion is in Berlin to generate interest in the opening of the Viking exhibition, 'Die Wikinger', which has been created in collaboration between the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Berlin, the British Museum in London and the National Museum in Copenhagen.
The Viking Ship Museum is showing an extension of 'Die Wikinger', with the exhibition, 'Ships of the Vikings', which is based on the find of the five Viking ships on Roskilde Fjord and the more than 50 years of work involved in building and sailing reconstructed Viking ships. A reconstruction of a smaller Viking Age boat will also take place as part of the exhibition. Both exhibitions are on display in Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, from 10th September until 4th January.
The exhibition will be opened on the 9th September by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark and German President, Joachim Gauck, who will also visit Sea Stallion together. The Queen was 'godmother' when Sea Stallion was launched in 2004 and since then, has sailed with the ship several times, most recently in 2012. The Queen and President will be received by Viking Ship Museum Director, Tinna Damgård-Sørensen and Skipper Carsten Hvid.
Sea Stallion will hold 'open ship' at Schiffbauerdamm 19 from the 7th - 14th September, daily from 10:00 - 19:00, except for Tuesday 9th September, where the ship will be closed to the public from 13:00 to facilitate the visit of her Majesty the Queen and the German President, Joachim Gauck.
