House of Manannan, History museum in Peel, Isle of Man.

The House of Manannan occupies the former Peel railway station, built in 1873 and closed in 1968, then expanded in 1997 for £5.5 million. Inside, a life-size Celtic roundhouse and a recreated 19th-century Peel street sit alongside Odin's Raven, a two-thirds-scale Viking longboat built in Norway.

The building opened in 1873 as Peel railway station on the Douglas–Peel line, which closed in September 1968. In 1979 it housed Odin's Raven, the Norwegian-built replica longship that arrived that July for the Tynwald millennium. In 1997 it reopened as the House of Manannan after a £5.5 million conversion and extension, and in 1998 it shared the National Heritage Museum of the Year award with the Jersey Maritime Museum.

The museum is named after Manannan mac Lir, the sea god of Irish myth, and its galleries trace Celtic, Viking and maritime life. In the Naval Encounters display a figure of Manannan narrates the stories of Manx sailors Peter Heywood, involved in the HMS Bounty mutiny, and John Quilliam, helmsman of HMS Victory at Trafalgar in 1805. An image of old Harry Kinley recounts the SS Viking and the 1939 evacuation of 1,800 children from St Peter Port, Guernsey.

The museum is easy to find in central Peel and accessible for visitors with different mobility needs. It is best to check current opening hours before visiting, as these can vary by season.

Odin's Raven, the two-thirds-scale Viking longship on display, was built in Norway and sailed to Peel, arriving on 4 July 1979 for the High Court of Tynwald's millennium celebrations. The crossing was crewed by 16 Norwegian and Manx sailors, and the ship is a replica of the Gokstad vessel kept in Oslo.