This summer we visited the Viking Ships Museum at Roskilde in Denmark. The museum is dedicated to preserving five viking ships that were discovered submerged in the Roskilde Fjord. The five ships were submerged for about a thousand years and so recovering them was a challenging task. Modern replicas of the ships have been built and there is an ongoing open source project where visitors can take part in constructing a boat.
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| Photo by Vassia Atanassova - Spiritia (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
The summer program included hands on activities for children to make jewellery, swords, shields, axes, model boats and other viking themed crafts.
At the cafe, we enjoyed a modern Nordic meal based on the types of foods Vikings would have eaten, including mead.
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