Research, boatbuilding and education
The Viking Ship Museum is an active experimental archaeology research centre where craftsmen, academics and seamen work together in order to discover more about maritime cultural heritage. Thus, both experimental archaeology conducted by boatbuilders, sailors and craftsmen, and maritime archaeology are central to the museums research, storytelling and education.
Boatyard
At the boatyard, located on Museum Lake, clinker-built utility boats are built. The boatyard's speciality is full-scale reconstruction of prehistoric boats, using the methods of the time.
Maritime craftsmen
The Viking Ship Museum is an active experimental archaeology research centre, with over thirty years experience in building and sailing reconstructions of archaeological ship finds
Museums boat collection
The boat collection is an active part of the museum's exhibition and communication. The museum's boat collection is constantly growing. The museum has more than 40 different boats, and several are built at the boatyard.
Research
The Viking Ship Museum is a cross-disciplinary environment in which craftsmen, academics and seamen work together in order to discover more about maritime cultural heritage.
Experimental archaeology
The Viking Ship Museum conducts experimental archaeological research in order to investigate the techniques, methods and conceptual understandings utilised while building and using the boats and ships of the past.
Maritime archaeology
The Viking Ship Museum also works with marine archaeology. Marine archaeology is archaeology under water, there are lots of archaeological traces on the seabed.