Viking World Entrance

THE ICELANDER

Viking World’s main attraction is the magnificent viking ship the Icelander (Íslendingur) which was sailed to New York in the year 2000 to commemorate Leifur Eiríksson’s journey to the New World a thousand years earlier.

VIKINGS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC

The story of the Viking expansion across the North Atlantic. The exhibition was produced in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution in USA as a part of the millennial celebration of Leifur Eiríksson’s journey to the New World.

The Vikings (from Old Norse víkingr) were seafaring north Germanic people who raided, traded, explored, and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries.

THE ICELANDER

The Settlement of Iceland exhibition deals with archaeological findings from the Suðurnes/Reykjanes region. Remains from the oldest occupation on Reykjanes peninsula from the ninth century.