Since 1954/55 the European Council has been organising regular exhibitions with the aim of raising public awareness of Europe’s cultural heritage. The exhibition From Viking to Crusader presented the Hoen Hoard in the section entitled Long-distance relations. In addition to displaying objects from the Arabian, Persian, and Byzantine cultural spheres, it also contains western European objects from the Christian Frankish Empire. The hoard hence appears predestined for the educative aim of the exhibition, to show the progressive integration of the North into a European cultural sphere defined by Christianity.