Viking exhibition at the British museum

I went yesterday to Bloomsbury to the Viking exhibition at the British Museum as this is the last week. A bit later than my period but similar in many ways. The new Sainsbury Gallery is impressively large but nearly entirely taken up by the reconstruction of the ship. Other replicas I have seen were quite small but this one would hold the 300 men you read about. There were also some beautiful gold brooches and I liked the replica rune stone which has been painted to show how it would originally been coloured (which you can't do with the original). It's very eye-catching and would have been visible for miles.