Soon pupils from Denmark, Scotland and Ireland will get to know the World’s biggest reconstruction of a Viking ship, while sitting in their classrooms.
445,100 kroner have been bestowed upon the Viking Ship Museum by the Ministry of Education and the e-museum trust of the Ministry of Culture. The money will be used to make the home page of the Sea Stallion ready for educational use.
Museum inspector at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde Martin Brandt Djupdræt explains: “The Sea Stallion’s home page can be integrated as part of the teaching in primary school and high school on topics as diverse as History, Mathematics, Science, and Geography. A particular strength is its usefulness in interdisciplinary courses”.
Using data from the ship
”It has to have good points of entry to all the historic sites, the ship passes on its way from Roskilde to Dublin. And the pupils will have access to the extensive data collected by the Sea Stallion itself during the 1,700 kilometres of the expedition,” Martin Brandt Djupdræt says.
“An example of data could be how the ship is loaded and how rapidly it sails at different wind velocities and directions. To it all we will make teaching guides and student assignments.”
International school project
The school service at The Viking Ship Museum is going to play a central part in the development of the homepage for educational use.
“As pedagogical partner we have Trællerupskolen, Avedøre Gymnasium, and Knowledge Lab at University of Southern Denmark. As partners in trade we have Roskilde Museum, the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow,” Martin Brandt Djupdræt says.
Kulturarvsstyrelsen has already contributed to www.havhingsten.dk with a grant of 250,000 kroner, making it possible to follow the voyage in real time.