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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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).
The current ruling house of Bernadotte similarly claims a Vasa mantle: Charles XIV was an adopted son of Charles XIII; his son Oscar I married a Vasa descendant Josephine of Leuchtenberg; their grandson Gustav V married Victoria of Baden who was a great-grandchild of Gustav IV Adolf of the house Holstein-Gottorp.