Vasa-Museum
The Vasa Museum (Swedish Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on the island of Djurgården and is fully intact, on its maiden voyage in 1628 sunken warship Vasa and its history.
The museum was opened in 1990, is part of the composite Statens maritima Museer ( German State -Maritime Museums of Sweden ) and is the most visited museum in Scandinavia.
History
From 1961 to 1988, the Vasa was temporarily housed in the Wasavarvet ( Vasa shipyard) and treated for preservation with polyethylene glycol. Visitors could look at the ship only two levels and a maximum distance of 5 meters. The Swedish government decided in 1981 to erect a separate Vasa Museum and organized an architectural competition, the final winner, Marianne Dahlbäck and Göran Månsson, gained ground against a total of 384 submitted models. The construction of the new building was carried out to a dry dock of an old shipyard and began on November 2, 1987 with a ceremony attended by Prince Bertil. In December 1988, they moved the Vasa in the flooded dry dock under the half finished buildings and in the summer of 1989, when visitors were allowed to enter the construction site already, you already counted 228,000 interested.
The museum was opened on 15 June 1990. The construction costs amounted to about 200 million crowns. So far, the Vasa has been seen by over 25 million people. 2009 was set up with 1,154,615 visitors, a record.
Exhibition
In the 34 m high main hall various archaeological finds of vessels and objects of the early 17th century are on display next to the Vasa. The vessel is fully in the building, including the lower mast sections, bowsprit and rigging housed. Missing or badly damaged parts were replaced, but not treated or removed, so that they clearly stand out from the original parts, the nachdunkelten in the water over the centuries. The ship can be viewed from six levels of, from the keel to the end of the aft castle. All around several exhibits and models can be considered, describe the design, discovery and recovery of the Vasa. There are also many exhibits on the history of Sweden in the 17th century, the background information that led to the construction of the ship, deliver. The museum displays on 12,540 m2 of exhibition space also museum ships:
- Icebreaker Sankt Erik ( commissioning in 1915 )
- Lightship Finngrundet (1903 )
- Speedboat Spica (1966 )
- Lifeboat Bernhard Ingelsson (1944 )
The book Vasa I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628 was released in 2006. Subsequent volumes are presented annually.
Architecture
The new museum is dominated by a large copper roof with stylized masts, which are intended to show the original Rigghöhe the Vasa. Parts of the building are covered with colored wooden panels.
Gallery
The museum ships of the Vasa Museum in outdoor
Exterior
Details of the Exterior