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Tuesday was a historic day for the Museum of the Viking Age when the foundation stone was laid at Bygdøy, Oslo. 

In order to save the unique wooden sleds from Oseberg, they must be conserved using a method that does not exist yet.

For the first time, we get to see how the Oseberg ship will be displayed in the new museum.

The work on the new Museum of the Viking Age is progressing. Today, Minister Sandra Borch got up close and personal to both the construction site and the unique Viking ships at Bygdøy in Oslo.

Two years after the Gjellestad excavation was completed, our experts are digitizing the 1400 rivets that were removed from the ship. The aim is to complete an accurate, digital reconstruction of the Viking ship.

A new museum building is essential to save the Viking ships. Before we begun construction, the ships needed to be secure – in what turned out to be a unique and spectacular project.

Today, construction work is finally underway on the new museum building that will house the Viking ships at Bygdøy.

Join archaeologists Christian and Margrethe on their search for two ancient burial grounds, following Norwegian archaeologist Nicolay Nicolaysen's 150-year-old documentation of the sites. In 1880 Nicolaysen led the excavation of the Gokstad ship.

Several thousand discoveries were made during the excavation at Gjellestad, and now the archaeologists are working to piece together the details of this exciting Viking history.