Vikings of Bjornstad - Seattle's National Nordic Museum

The museum "explores Nordic history and culture over the last twelve thousand years, with items from our collection and on loan from the National Museums of all five Nordic countries." Here's the museum's web site.
These photos were taken by Christina Newport and are presented here with her kind permission.

A beautifully decorated pleasure craft for river travel, too little freeboard for the North Atlantic...	Tools for the homestead, including cutters, scrapers, a warp-weighted loom weight and a lamp
Food serving implements, with some nice decorations	Nice decorative work on their reproduction ship as well
Replica Viking navigation instruments, including a sun compass (after the Wolin artifact) and a Calcite (Calcium Carbonate) sunstone crystal. Also, a raven. It's probably not an original, but they DID contribute to navigation!	Sternpost for a longship and useful information about the onset of the Viking Age
A saexring, with benches set so the rowers could easily reverse direction	A later era dinghy. Note the absence of lapstrake construction.
A nice faering, showing the attachment of the steering board	Oðinn
Another view of the steering board	It's Seattle: short portage. Too well built to not put it to use...
Runestone U 136 from Broby bro, Sweden, ca. 1020 - 1050 AD: Old Norse transcription: Æstriðr let ræisa stæina þessa at Øystæin, bonda sinn, es sotti Iorsaliʀ ok ændaðis upp i Grikkium English translation: Ástríðr had these stones raised in memory of Eysteinn, her husbandman, who went to Jerusalem and met his end up in Greece.	A reproduction runestone, getting more authentic by the year