The Vikings at the British Museum

They raided, traded, explored and they settled. Their Gods, their warriors and their eye for beauty defined an age. And now they’re back.

The Vikings exhibition at the British Museum from 6 March – 22 June 2014 is the first major exhibition on Vikings at the British Museum for over 30 years. It features many new archaeological discoveries and objects never seen before in the UK alongside important Viking Age artefacts from the British Museum’s own collection and elsewhere in Britain and Ireland.

New interpretations place warfare and warrior identity at the centre of what it meant to be a Viking; cultural contact was often violent, and the transportation of looted goods and slaves reflects the role of Vikings as both raiders and traders.

This exhibition will be the first in The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery, part of the new World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre that opens later in 2014. The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery is the British Museum’s first purpose built space for temporary exhibitions.

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