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title: "Viking heritage, a complex engineering project lead by SYSTRA in Norway"
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# Viking heritage, a complex engineering project lead by SYSTRA in Norway

![Viking heritage, a complex engineering project lead by SYSTRA in Norway](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/gettyimages-522692214-scaled.jpg)

The Viking Ship Museum, located on the Bygdøy peninsula on the western side of
Oslo, houses the world’s largest collection of Viking heritage. Closed since
2021, it is set to reopen in 2027 as the Museum of the Viking Age in a renovated
building. But before that, the treasures , which are over 1,500 years old, must
be moved.

## High-risk removals

You may be wondering what this has to do with SYSTRA. Statsbygg, the public
authority responsible for supervising construction sites, property management
and promoting Norwegian government buildings, took into account SYSTRA Norway’s
extensive experience in quality assurance and financial risk analysis in complex
large-scale projects. Since 2001, we have been working for the Norwegian
Ministry of Finance on assignments in this field, selecting design studies and
monitoring major public projects.

SYSTRA’s assignment here was to conduct several risk and quality assurance
analyses on cost and schedule estimates for the relocation of three Viking ships
dating back more than 1,500 years: Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune.

![image](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image.png)

> This is a one-off project which involved four years of preparation and extreme
> engineering precision work – a responsibility that is taken very seriously.
> The goal has been the same throughout – to safeguard cultural treasures –
> while controlling risk and costs.
> Runar Vartdal, Senior Advisor, SYSTRA Norway

The transfer of the first Viking ship, discovered at Oseberg in 1905, to the new
museum space took place on 10 September 2025. Next up are preparations for the
transfer of the Gokstad ship, scheduled for this autumn.

![](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/gettyimages-521945986-lancienne-salle-dexposition-du-navire-oseberg-660x660.jpg)

_The former exhibition space of the Oseberg ship_

![cf56218_314-vikingtidsmuseet_universitetet_i_oslo_10092025-2000px_en-cours-de-deplacement-vers-la-nouvelle-aile-du-musee](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cf56218_314-vikingtidsmuseet_universitetet_i_oslo_10092025-2000px_en-cours-de-deplacement-vers-la-nouvelle-aile-du-musee-660x660.jpg)

_The move in a special cage to a wing in the new museum_

## From 2027, The Museum of the Viking Age

The future Museum of the Viking Age will be housed in an extension of the former
Bygdøy Museum. Visitors will be able to enter in 2027 and discover the three
best-preserved ships in the world, as well as more than 5,500 objects from the
Viking era.

This museum, the largest in the world dedicated to Viking history, is also a
research centre dedicated to preserving these national treasures for current and
future generations.

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