British Museum : Vikings Live! (12A as live) - Tickets available on the door
Running time approx 90 mins.
Visit Ely Cinema for Vikings Live from the British Museum – a live cinema event broadcast directly from the British Museum’s latest major exhibition. See the wonders of the BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend from the comfort of the cinema, introduced by Michael Wood and Exhibition Curator Gareth Williams, and get a glimpse behind the scenes.
Gareth Williams and Tom Williams, alongside experts on Viking ships and swords, burial and beliefs, language and legacy.
The exhibition is the first on the Viking world at the British Museum for over 30 years. Audiences will discover new ideas about the Vikings – people who were not just deadly raiders and pillagers but also peaceful traders, who sailed the seas of the world and whose thought- world was full of living gods of poetry and war.
Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images show how Vikings created an international network connecting cultures over four continents.
At the centre of the exhibition will be the surviving timbers of a 37-metre-long warship, the longest ever found. The Viking ship was a marvel of engineering and during the live broadcast craftsmen from the National Maritime Museum
will construct the prow of a great Viking ship, to show what made these vessels so spectacular – built for speed, endurance and deadly beauty. A replica sailing ship will be installed in front of the Museum a dramatic Viking burial.will be staged as night falls.
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