Daily summer sailing trips
Join one of the daily sailings from 01 May - 30 September and experience what it was like to be a Viking on board one of the Viking Ship Museum's traditional Nordic boats.
Group sailing in traditional Nordic boats
Invite your family, colleagues or friends to a very special experience in a historical setting with modern maritime safety. During the summer season, we sail daily on Roskilde Fjord with companies, organisations, families and other groups.
Evening sailings
Sail into the sunset as you experience the special atmosphere on the water as day turns to evening.
Along the way, the captain will tell you about the museum's work to preserve the Nordic cultural heritage.
Group sailing in an authentic reconstruction of a Viking ship
Looking for the ultimate sailing experience? Gather your family, colleagues or friends and book a group sailing trip in one of the museum's reconstructions of Viking ships.
Full-day courses - Learn to sail a Viking ship
Experience a unique sailing course at the Viking Museum's summer day courses. Here you can try your skills in the sailing techniques of the Vikings in one of the museum's reconstructions of a Viking ship.
The course is for both the inexperienced sailor and those who are looking for new challenges and angles to their sailing experience.
Safety on board
You can safely step aboard the Viking Ship Museum's vessels. We have done everything necessary to ensure that the sailings are carried out in a safe and secure manner, so that the experience and joy of sailing is optimal for you as a passenger.
Sailing trips on Roskilde Fjord
- Climb on board!
Board a Viking ship and get up close!
The Museum is the only place in the world where you can experience seeing 1000-year-old Viking ships, and then go directly out to the Museum harbor, where the full-scale reconstructed Viking ships lie moored at the quayside. The Viking Ship Museum invites its guests to take part in unique sailing trips with either Viking ships or traditional Nordic boats, which are the descendants of the Vikings' ships. Viking ships were originally used for war, trading, fishing and transport during short every day trips or on longer voyages to foreign shores.
We go sailing on Roskilde Fjord every day with pre-booked corporate groups, school children and international group visitors. Take your family or friends with you for a special experience in an historical context, but with modern safety standards.
You buy your ticket as an addition to the entrance ticket and during the summer season timeslots are posted and updated daily on our website. Check the timeslots here.
The Museum's boat collection of reconstructed Viking ships and other traditional boat types from the North are an integral and active part of our education and outreach program. Our boat builders have built many of the boats at the boatyard and a sailing trip is the perfect way to complete your visit.
Find out more by following the links below or call our booking office. They will help you arrange the perfect event.
Sailing trips resume from May to September in 2024:
Departure times for daily sailings are published when the sailing season begins.
» Learn more about daily summer boat trips here...
» Few of the daily summer boat trips can be booked online, the rest will be sold day to day at the museum...