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Welcome to one of the most visited museums in Scandinavia and explore the world's only preserved 17th century ship. The ship Vasa capsized and sank in 1628. After 333 years on the sea bed she was salvaged and the voyage could continue.
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- About the Vasa Museum
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The Vasa Museum is open every day all year around. For more...
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Vasa is a real treasure from the 17th century that offers us...
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The Vasa Museum collections include the more than 40 000...
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The Vasa Ship is a never ending source of knowledge. At the...
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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 ...
- Jenny Lind
- 1,495,760 (2017)
- 15 June 1990
Vasa become the most widely recognised name of the ship, largely because the Vasa Museum chose this form of the name as its 'official' orthography in the late 1980s. This spelling was adopted because it is the form preferred by modern Swedish language authorities, and conforms to the spelling reforms instituted in Sweden in the early 20th century.
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Jun 18, 2020 · The museum reopened 1 May 2013, with a new exhibition hall, entrance hall and and brand new shop. In 2019 the Vasa Museum welcomed over 1.5 million visitors - the most visited year in the museum's entire history. The Vasa Museum has become a natural part of Stockholm's skyline. Its masts rising high above Djurgården have become a beacon ...
Nov 23, 2021 · The ship Vasa’s figurehead, a lion. Image by Anneli Karlsson, the Vasa Museum/SMTM. Disembark at The Vasa Museum Garden. From sea to land, The Vasa Museum Garden exhibit grows many of the plants and vegetables common in the 17 th century. The variety of produce, herbs and flowers allows visitors to imagine life in the 1600’s.
The Vasa is the best-preserved seventeenth-century ship in the world and a unique art treasure. More than 98 percent of the ship is original, and it is decorated with hundreds of carved sculptures.The 69 meter-long warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628 and was salvaged 333 years later in 1961. For nearly half a century the ship has been slowly, deliberately, and ...
