VIKINGS will take over York Theatre Royal this month as part of a new exhibition.
After the Jorvik Viking Centre was damaged by flood water, the team has opened a free exhibition at the newly-reopened theatre's 12th-century Keregan Room.
The exhibition, starting on May 21, looks at the Vikings' use of medicine and living conditions, and marks the first time the Keregan Room, which is part of the ancient St Leonard's Hospital undercroft, has been opened to the public.
The Jorvik: Life and Death exhibition is the first of three planned for this year, while the York Archaeological Trust renovate the Viking Centre following the flooding.
It will include interactive displays, a soft play area for young children and the only complete female skeleton found during the original Coppergate archaeological dig.
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