Viking World museum
Víkingaheimar | |
Established | 8 May 2009 |
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Location | Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland |
Coordinates | 63°58′34″N 22°31′42″W / 63.97602°N 22.528469°W |
Architect | Guðmundur Jónsson |
Website | vikingworld |
Viking World (Icelandic: Víkingaheimar [ˈviːciŋkaˌheiːmar̥]) is a museum in Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland.
The museum opened on 8 May 2009,[1][2] followed by a formal opening on Icelandic National Day, 17 June.[3][4] The director was Elisabeth Ward;[5] the building was designed by Guðmundur Jónsson.[1][2]
Viking World has on permanent display the
The museum also houses the exhibition Vikings—The North Atlantic Saga from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.[2][3][6] On 1 December 2010, a 2-year temporary exhibition with materials on loan from the National Museum of Iceland opened with a heathen reburial ceremony for a body excavated at Hafurbjarnarstaðir in 1868.[5] The exhibits include materials from recent archaeological excavations.[8]
The museum came under new ownership in June 2015, with Sveinn V. Björgvinsson as managing director[8] and Björn Jónasson as business manager.[9] The museum at that time had four employees, two full-time; the new management hoped to expand it to attract travelling exhibitions and possibly to add a café.[8]
References
- ^ a b Víkingaheimar - Viking World to be opened, EFLA-Engineers.com, April 2009.
- ^ a b c Víkingaheimar opna á morgun, Víkurfréttir 7 May 2009 (in Icelandic)
- ^ a b Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine, Visiting the World of Vikings, Iceland Review 13 July 2009.
- ^ "Víkingaheimar formlega opnaðir á þjóðhátíðardaginn", Vísir 18 June 2009 (in Icelandic)
- ^ a b "Heathen Buried in Iceland, 1,100 Years Post-Mortem", Iceland Review, 2 December 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60239-647-0, p. 29.
- ^ Skipið Archived March 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, vikingaheimar.is (in Icelandic)
- ^ a b c "'Víkingaskipið Íslendingur einhver fegursti hlutur á Íslandi'—segir Sveinn V. Björgvinsson framkvæmdastjóri Víkingaheima", Víkurfréttir, 20 July 2015 (in Icelandic).
- Dagblaðið Vísir, 2 October 2015, (in Icelandic), archivedat the Wayback Machine on 4 March 2016.