Description
Summary
Description
Learn about the Viking Age and the settlement of Iceland at the Viking World Museum (Vikingaheimar) in Reykjanesbaer Town on the Reykjanes Peninsula, about 10 minutes from Keflavik International Airport.
The museum is built around the Islendingur, or "the Icelander," a full-scale Viking longship made of oak and pine. In 2000, the ship sailed across the Atlantic from Iceland to New York to mark the journey of Leifur Eiriksson to North America 1,000 years earlier. At the museum, you can stand right beside it.
You can also see Norse artifacts recovered from archaeological sites across the Norse world, and some of them can be touched.
Saga storytelling brings to life the sagas that shaped the North Atlantic, told in the country where they took place.
Norse and Gaelic settlers arrived in Iceland in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, built farms, and in 930 founded the Althingi, one of the world's oldest parliaments.
With this entrance ticket, you can visit the museum at a time that suits the rest of your plans in Iceland.
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