Museums & Culture > Museum: History, National HistoryThe Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy is one of the two buildings comprising the Museum of Cultural History. In the Viking Ship Museum there are grave finds from Tune, Gokstad, Oseberg and Borre.
When the Tune Ship was found and excavated in 1867 at the Nedre Haugen farm in Rolvsøy, Østfold, no separate museum was planned for the Viking Ships; neither was a museum planned when the Gokstad Ship was excavated in the summer of 1880 at Gokstad farm in the county of Sandefjord. The Gokstad Ship was exhibited as it had been found in a temporary shelter in the University Garden in Oslo. In 1904 the Oseberg Ship was excavated from the Oseberg Farm in Slagen, not far from Tønsberg. After the excavation, the ship was reassembled in yet another temporary shelter in the University Garden.