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Viking World ((アイスランド語:Víkingaheimar)) is a museum in Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland. The museum opened on 8 May 2009,〔(Víkingaheimar - Viking World to be opened ), EFLA-Engineers.com, April 2009.〕〔(Víkingaheimar opna á morgun ), ''Víkurfréttir'' 7 May 2009 〕 followed by a formal opening on Icelandic National Day, 17 June.〔〔("Víkingaheimar formlega opnaðir á þjóðhátíðardaginn" ), ''Vísir'' 18 June 2009 〕 The director was Elisabeth Ward;〔 the building was designed by Guðmundur Jónsson.〔〔 Viking World has on permanent display the ''Íslendingur'', the replica of the Gokstad Viking ship which in 2000 was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, for the celebrations of the millennium of Leif Ericsson's voyage and then to New York. The ship was returned to Iceland and placed on exhibit in the open air until being transferred to the new museum in autumn 2008.〔Jeff Blumenfeld, ''You Want to Go Where?: How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams'', New York: Skyhorse, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60239-647-0, (p. 29 ).〕 She is suspended one and a half metres in the air so that visitors can walk underneath her hull and see the workmanship.〔(Skipið ), vikingaheimar.is 〕 The museum also houses the exhibition ''Vikings — The North Atlantic Saga'' from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..〔〔Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine, (Visiting the World of Vikings ), ''Iceland Review'' 13 July 2009.〕〔 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.〔("Heathen Buried in Iceland, 1,100 Years Post-Mortem" ), ''Iceland Review'', 2 December 2010.〕 A Viking village is planned to be constructed near the museum.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viking World museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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