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Visit the Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug

Visit the Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug and experience life in the Late Iron Age. Sit around the open...

Våpensett

Viking beacons - Militarism in northern Europe

The project will investigate beacons or warning fires that were lit during attacks on the country in...

Bilde av bølger

LAST-conference in june

Invitation to Conference on the social impact of disasters and climate change . 9.-10. June 2022 in...

Bilde av ei spenne frå vikingtid

Animals Mediating the Real and the Imaginary

This research project examines how humans in the past approached, and formed relationships with...

Bronselurer. Funnet på Revheim. Fra yngre bronsealder. Foto: Annette Øvrelid, Arkeologisk museum, UiS

Explore the prehistory in our exhibitions

At the Museum of Archaeology, you meet the past in new and modern exhibitions. Here you get the...

Pilespiss av flint

Life After the Storegga Tsunami (LAST)

The project is based on the Storeggatsunami, which took place about 8150 years ago, to shed light on...

Bilde av skjelett som ble funnet under utgraving under Domkirken i Stavanger

Medieval life before and after death

What was life like in Rogaland in the Middle Ages? There is much that is yet to be explored about...

Drvitømmer foran steinstrand

10 million NOK for research on under-explored marine resources

Environmental changes from generation to generation aren’t always visible. A new research project...

Smykkene til Frafjord-kvinnen.

Jewellery from grave of high status Viking woman delivered at museum’s door

Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress...

The hilt has unique details in gold and silver and exquisite details not previously known.

Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea

A unique type of Viking Age sword with spectacular ornamentation has been found in Stavanger. The...