The National Museum of Ireland is the principal host and the longship will form the centrepiece of a special exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks from August 2007 to June 2008.
The Department of Arts Sport and Tourism is working with the Royal Danish Embassy, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Dublin City Council, Dublin Tourism, in supporting the visit.
The Sea Stallion will depart from Roskilde, Denmark in early July and travel across the North Sea, around the north coast of Scotland and southwards across the Irish Sea to Dublin, where she is expected on 14th August. It will be welcomed in a two-day celebration at Custom House Quay organised by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. The ship will dock alongside a specially constructed Viking themed village in Dublin’s Docklands, before being transferred for display with an accompanying exhibition of authentic shipbuilding crafts at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
Main events:
1st July - The Sea Stallion departs from Roskilde, Denmark.
14th/ 15th August - Welcoming ceremony for The Sea Stallion and two days celebration at Custom House Quay.
17th - 19th August – The Sea Stallion arrives in National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
August – June 2008 – The Sea Stallion and accompanying exhibition will be displayed at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks until June 2008.
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Dubliners can look forward to welcoming a magnificent Viking longship to the city this summer. The “ Havhingsten fra Glendalough “ - Sea Stallion from Glendalough - is a reconstruction by the Danish Viking Museum of a thirty metre long Viking warship built in Dublin in 1042.
