YORK’S Vikings have a new temporary home from tomorrow (Saturday, June 25) when many of the costumed hosts normally based at the Jorvik Viking Centre move premises for a new exhibition focusing on domestic life and trade in the period.
The new exhibition at York St Mary’s will feature many of the world-class artefacts that were rescued from centre when its basement was flooded as rivers burst their banks in December.
The display features some of the best preserved Viking leather shoes to horn combs and jewellery which were all discovered during the Coppergate Dig of the late 1970s.
The Jorvik: Home and Abroad exhibition will all be set around a replica Viking boat centrepiece, loaded with goods that would have been traded in the city during the 200-year period of Norse settlement in the city as well as Viking models.
A spokesman for the attraction said: “It was always crucial to us to keep the Viking story alive in York whilst the redevelopment and re-imaging of Jorvik Viking Centre takes place behind the scenes.”
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