Maritime Museum (Stockholm)
The Seehistorische Museum (Swedish Sjöhistoriska museet ) is a maritime museum in Stockholm. It is located on the northern shore of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken in the Östermalm district.
Background
In the early 1930s the decision was taken to build a seehistorisches Museum in Stockholm, the question had been discussed for 40 years and the growing maritime collections were shown just as long in temporary places. The new building was eventually funded by a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Condition of the Donation was that the state had ready a suitable property and that the construction should not be designed in the style of modernity, since you can not " still a shoe box " would have, possibly an allusion to the built in close proximity simultaneously Technical Museum ( Tekniska museet ), in strict functionalism.
The building
As grounds the former exhibition grounds of the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 exhibition, which is generally considered a breakthrough of modernism in Sweden was elected on Djurgårdsbrunnsviken.
The museum was designed by architect Ragnar Östberg Stadshus - who never right with the style form of modernism had been able to make friends. So he designed absolutely no " shoe box ", but a weakly curved, elongated structure whose simple monumentality of the Swedish 18th century architecture and Gustav III.s architect Olof Tempelman, recalled. The central part of the building is highlighted by a dome provided tower. The roofs are covered with copper sheet, the facades painted white. It was here at last Östbergs actualized work with which he demonstrated his distance to modernity, just at the place where a few years earlier, the Modern had kept their collection in Sweden. The museum was inaugurated on 28 May 1938 by King Gustav V.
The building is a listed building and is managed by Statens fastighetsverk.
The Museum
The permanent exhibition displays a large collection of paintings and realistic ship models that describe the history of the Swedish Navy. However, the main attraction is the original rear and a replica of the royal cabin of Amphion, pleasure yacht Gustav III. , Which was designed by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman and served the king as a command post.
In addition to the permanent exhibition there are temporary theme exhibitions. In 1940, lured one of these exhibitions with the theme of 'Swedish sailor deeds in times of trouble " within three months 25,000 visitors.
In the museum's collections are an archive of historic architectural drawings for boats, a collection of photographs with 600,000 images and Scandinavia's largest nautical library of nearly 60,000 volumes. In the archives can now be searched online by anyone.
The museum has a separate boat shed ( Båthall 2) near the Vasamuseums. This hall contains one of the largest historic boat collections in Europe and has over a hundred boats from the 15th to the 20th century. Here is for example the Royal Sloop " Vasaorden ", which belongs to the Royal Navy and is sailed by it.
In 2004, the museum had 30,000 visitors and 2005 about 149,000 visitors. The sharp increase was related to the fact that in 2005 the admission was free. Since 2007, however, admission is charged with exceptions again.
Footnotes
Interior images
Amphion model
Exhibition hall
Exhibition hall
Swell
- Guiding till Stockholm arkitektur, Arkitektur Förlag, 2005
- Stockholm byggnader, prism Stockholm, 1977