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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 ...
Vasaborgen ("The Vasa Fortress") is a museum in the ruins of the original foundation of the 1549 royal apartments. The museum opened in 2004, replacing an older, government operated museum which interpreted the history of the castle. [12] It is open for limited hours only during the summer season. [13]
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.
Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, it is the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship. Image credits: ICumCoffee #5 Suitcases Of People Sent To Concentration Camps.
The Vasa Museum in Stockholm. ... Translated to “Our Place,” Te Pa's emphasis on diversity began in 1865 with the opening of the Colonial Museum, which included a number of paintings and ...
Swedish Army Museum; The Maritime Museum; Nordic Museum; Vasa Museum; Jewish Museum in Stockhholm; The Viking Museum; Swedish Holocaust Museum; Science, technology.
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.
Galärvarvet - Formerly a naval dockyard, today transformed into a popular park area including the Vasa Museum and Junibacken. Gröna Lund - A relatively small amusement park founded in 1883, besides the typical merry-go-rounds and roller coasters, it also offers concerts featuring international stars such as Miyavi , Bob Marley , and Damian ...