Vasa Museum
Vasamuseet | |
Established | 15 June 1990 |
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Location | Galärvarvsvägen 14, Djurgården, Sweden |
Type | Maritime museum |
Visitors | 1,495,760 (2017)[1] |
Director | Jenny Lind |
Website | Official website |
The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official website, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. Together with other museums such as the Stockholm Maritime Museum, it belongs to the Swedish National Maritime Museums (SNMM).
History
From the beginning of 1961 to 1983, Vasa was housed in a temporary structure called Wasavarvet ("The Vasa Shipyard") where she was treated with
The main hall contains the ship itself, and various exhibits related to the archaeological findings of the ships and early 17th-century Sweden. Vasa has been fitted with the lower sections of all three masts, a new bowsprit, winter rigging, and has had certain parts that were missing or heavily damaged replaced. The replacement parts have not been treated or painted and are therefore clearly visible against the original material that has been darkened after three centuries under water.
The new museum is dominated by a large copper roof with stylized masts that represent the actual height of Vasa when she was fully rigged. Parts of the building are covered in wooden panels painted in dark red, blue, tar black, ochre yellow and dark green. The interior is similarly decorated, with large sections of bare, unpainted concrete, including the entire ceiling. Inside the museum the ship can be seen from six levels, from her
The museum is in the process of publishing an 8-volume archaeological report to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the salvage. Vasa I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628 was published at the end of 2006. Subsequent volumes will be published annually.[3]
The museum also features four other
Gallery
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The main hall of the museum with a model of Vasa, complete with sails, to the left and the ship itself, which has no sails anymore, to the right.
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The four floating museum ships moored outside the Vasa Museum.
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Exterior detail of the museum building.
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A side view of the bow of the warship Vasa.
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Vasa, top deck and port side, seen from above.
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Vasa part of stern and port side, from a lower viewing point.
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Reproduction of the 'Great Cabin' from Vasa's upper gun deck.
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Leather shoes and boots on display in the Vasamuset.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "År 2017 blev Vasamuseets mest besökta någonsin". Vasa Museum. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ Vasa Museum Timeline Page, accessed May 10, 2018
- ^ Vasa Museum homepage, accessed June 30, 2007
Sources
- Kvarning, Lars-Åke and Ohrelius, Bengt (1998) The Vasa - The Royal Ship ISBN 91-7486-581-1
- Annual report of 2008 from Statens Maritima museer(The National Maritime Museums)
External links
- Media related to Vasa Museum at Wikimedia Commons
- Vasa Museum homepage