Ok. Did know viking museum was closed. Son mow tells me the only thing he's interested in is viking . We are going to oslo . What is best place for viking exhibit. Thanks
Posted by
Uppsala, Sweden
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Are you going anywhere else than Oslo?
Posted by
Chicago
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The museum has been closed since 2021. Long term renovations.
Posted by
Chicago
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Can you show him the Kontiki movie from 2012 or original documentary on Youtube and visit the Kontiki Museum?
Polar exhibition at Fram Museum? (There is a ship to clamber over)
Norse Folkesmuseum with over 100 historic buildings to enter and explore?
Pause the trip until 2027 for the new Viking Age Museum?????
Do you happen to be going to Copenhagen? Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, easy day trip.
Good luck!
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Chicago
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I have not visited the Historical Museum at the University of Oslo. It claims to have Viking exhibits. Perhaps someone can advise you on its exhibits.
Posted by
Chicagoland
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All the places ORDtraveler mentions are on Bygdøy peninsula easily reached by ferry.
Outside of Oslo, Midgard Viking Center, Slotsfjells Museum.
Posted by
Citizen of the World
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The Norsk Folkesmuseum is near the location of the yet-to-open Viking Ship museum in the countryside just outside central Oslo.
You can see the Gol Stave Church here— a wooden church built between 1157 and 1216. When it was built, symbols of Viking mythology were carved into the ceiling and interior walls of the church as Christianity was new to the Norse and they incorporated a lot of their spiritual symbols—- dragons, demons and animals— into the motifs inside the church.
You almost wouldn’t know this was a Christian church from the carvings inside of it.