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Vasa was towed into the flooded dry dock under the new building in December 1987, and during the summer of 1989, when visitors were allowed onto the construction site, 228,000 people visited the half-finished museum. The museum was officially opened on 15 June 1990. [2] So far, Vasa has been seen by over 25 million people. In 2017, the museum ...
Vasa became 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.
Economy Museum - Royal Coin Cabinet; Museum of Medieval Stockholm; Medelhavsmuseet; Skansen; Museum of Ethnography, Sweden; Swedish History Museum; Stockholm County Museum; Stockholm City Museum; Livrustkammaren; Swedish Army Museum; The Maritime Museum; Nordic Museum; Vasa Museum; Jewish Museum in Stockhholm; The Viking Museum; Swedish ...
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II ("Ice breaker II") and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull.
Pashko Vasa in 1878. O Moj Shqypni (English: "Oh Albania, poor Albania") is a poem written by Pashko Vasa, a political figure, poet, novelist, and patriot known for his role during the Albanian National Awakening, known as Rilindja. It was written between 1878, an important year for the League of Prizren and 1880. [1]
English: View of Stockholm, Sweden, with Kastellet, Vasa Museum, and Nordic Museum. Español : Vista de Estocolmo , Suecia, con los edificios de Kastellet , Museo Vasa y Museo Nórdico . Français : Vue sur le Kastellet , le Musée Vasa et le Musée nordique dans la ville de Stockholm (Suède).
Carl Gustaf Anders Franzén (23 July 1918 – 8 December 1993) was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. [1] He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon Vasa in 1956 [1] and participated in her salvage 1959–1961.
The city was known as Vasa between 1606 and 1855, Nikolajstad (Swedish) and Nikolainkaupunki (Finnish) between 1855 and 1917, named after the then late Czar Nicholas I of Russia, [2] Vasa (Swedish) and Vaasa (Finnish) after the February Revolution, with the Finnish spelling of the name being the primary one from around 1930 when Finnish ...