Museums Victoria's History and Technology department holds a small but significant number of items relating to the Viking era in the region now known as the United Kingdom, broadly from the 8th to the 11th century. Most of the items are numismatics - coins minted during this era. Many were transferred to the Museum from the National Gallery of Victoria in the 1970s, of which some were previously acquired from sellers in the United Kingdom.

The collection also includes a small number of items which reflect contemporary responses to Viking history and culture. 

The First Peoples department holds hundreds of objects from the United Kingdom and Ireland that date back to eras long before the Viking Age. These objects include sharp, intentional hand axes crafted in what is today England by our hominin kin during the Palaeolithic period hundreds of thousands years ago. Our collections also span the Bronze and Neolithic periods, the Roman era, and photographs of stone tools and of archaeological and megalithic sites (think Stone Henge). Quietly nestled in cabinets, pieces including fragments of Roman glass, Bronze-age spearheads and axes, and dramatic picks made of deer antler all promise to reveal rich and complex pasts. You can browse a selection of these objects below. 

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