Summer themes at the Museum

Summer themes at the Viking Ship Museum

Throughout the summer the Viking Ship Museum focus on the many different maritime crafts and other special vikinge activities.

Depending on when you visit the museum, you can go for war training, learn boatbuilding, meet the black smith or help make wood tar with the museum's skilled craftsmen.

1-5 July: Warrior training

At the Viking Ship Museum, you can try your hand at the fighting techniques mastered by the Vikings during this special week. The warriors must be ready to defend the country against enemies, take part in a raid or fight in the service of the King

8-14 July: Boatbuilding days

The Viking Ship Museum’s boatbuilders are busy building a new replica of a Viking ship at the boat yard.
If you visit the museum this week, you can cleave small logs and work with the boatbuilders tools.

15 - 21 July: 1000 years with sails

In the sailmaker’s workshop, you can see the skilled craftsmen maintaining the museum's many sails. In the workshop, there will be sails of wool, cotton and linen.
During the week, the craftsmen will talk about how the sail has evolved from raw sail made of wool to a modern sail made of synthetic materials. The craftsmen are working all day and are always ready to talk about materials, tools and techniques.

24-28 July: Blacksmithing days

The Viking Ship Museum's skilled black smiths shows their special techniques to the museum's guests who can come close to the complicated and mysterious smithing technique this week.

29 July - 4 August: Woodcarving days

Meet the woodcarver and carve beautiful patterns in wood in her workshop located on the Museum Island.

5 - 9 August: A taste of the Viking Age

Meet the Viking cook and make Viking food over the open hearth. The Viking cook will tell you all about Viking Age ingredients and cooking methods, and about where we get our knowledge of Viking food from. There’ll be lots of peeling, chopping, frying and baking over the fire when the cook prepares dishes from the Viking Age. Both children and adults can help out in the kitchen, where you can try and bake your own Viking biscuits on a pan over the fire. They taste delicious with freshly churned butter, which you can also make yourself.

12 - 16 August: Woodcarving days