Vasa Museet
Located in Stockholm, Sweden
Description
“The Vasa Museum is one of Scandinavia's most visited museums. It is here that you will find in all its glory, the unique and well preserved warship Vasa from 1628, embellished with hundreds of wooden sculptures.
Around 1 million visitors every year enjoy the exhibitions in the museum, which describe the warship Vasa's history and life at the time; how, after 333 years at the bottom of Stockholm harbour, the ship was rediscovered and salvaged; and the research which is now underway to preserve Vasa. The Vasa Museum lies in the royal parkland, Djurgården, in Stockholm.
The Vasa Museum is a part of the agency the Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums (SMTM), together with the National Maritime Museum and Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm, the Naval Museum in Karlskrona and the Railway Museum in Gävle.
The agency's mission is to preserve and develop the maritime and transport history cultural heritage and to increase people's knowledge about it. The government decides which direction our work should take, and we receive our instructions and directives from the Ministry of Culture.”
-Vasa Museum
Contact and information
Location: Galärvarvsvägen 14, Stockholm
Tel: +46 (0)8-51954880
Email: registrator@smtm.se
Chip’s Notes
The Vasa Museum houses the largest 17th century war ship in the world, resurrected in after it sank in 1628 in the very harbor where the museum stands. Worth the visit. Have you been to the Museum? Please share your story below. We also took in a lot of Stockholm in our too brief visit. Read more about our time there on Days 600 and 601.