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Nordic Conference for Maritime Archaeology IV: 3rd supplementary Call for Papers

As more of the originally…

The digital game ‘MuseumsMysteriet’ will help children get around the Viking Ship Hall in a fun, entertaining and surprising way. Photo: Jacob Nyborg Andreassen / Viking Ship Museum

New digital game: Help Astrid to solve the Museum Mystery

Help Astrid saving the Viking Ship Museum from a cunning theft.

Bring a smartphone, download the game for free -…

New exhibition at the Viking Ship Museum tells the story of the battle, which Christian IV would rather have forgotten.Painting: Sjöhistoriska Museet in Stockholm

New exhibition brings 400-year-old naval battle to life

A cold October day in 1644, a dramatic naval battle is fought, which sends three warships to the bottom of the sea.…

The sea can’t remove every trace…For nearly 400 years, the sea has kept hidden the gruesome remains of melted bronze guns, shot-damaged ship parts, shot and grim traces of the dead.

Special exhibition ‘In Smoke and Flames' about the naval battle in Fehmarn Belt, 1644

A cold October day in 1644, a dramatic naval battle is fought, which sends three ships to the bottom of the…

The Viking Ship Museum is open again

We’ve prepared an exciting season with new activities under Corona-safe conditions.

2022: Nordic Conference for Maritime Archaeology IV

May 5 - 7 2022, the Viking Ship Museum is hosting the fourth Nordic Conference for Maritime Archaeology.

 

New dates for the Nordic Conference for Maritime Archaeology IV

As everyone will know, it is not possible to see the end of the corona pandemic in the foreseeable future. However,…

Skuldelev 3 Revisited - a new Viking ship is being built at the Viking Ship Museum's boatyard. Construction will be completed in September / October 2021.

Iron in the Viking ships - rivets and roves

The Vikings used iron rivets and roves when they build their ships. But in the construction of the Skuldelev 3…

Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum are currently conducting diving surveys of the wreck of a large warship from the 17th century. The ship is perhaps the last of the three sunken warships from the Battle of the Fehmarnbelt in 1644, the Danish warship DELMENHORST.

Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark find warship from the 17th century

The ship is most likely the Danish warship 'Delmenhorst', the last of the three sunken warships from the 'Battle of…

Read more about the discovery of a Danish warship that has been missing for almost 400 years.

Marine archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum examine the last of the sunken warships from the Battle of the…