Vasa Museum

The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located at the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the simplest almost completely intact 17th century deliver that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, consistent with the reputable net web site, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. Together with different museums along with the Stockholm Maritime Museum, it belongs to the Swedish National Maritime Museums. From the beginning of 1961 to 1988, Vasa turned into housed in a transient structure known as Wasavarvet where she became handled with polyethylene glycol. Visitors should handiest view the ship from stages and the maximum distance become most effective five m In 1981, the Swedish authorities determined that a everlasting

Vasa museum turned into to be built and a competition for the layout of the museum constructing turned into prepared. A total of 384 architects sent in fashions in their ideas and the final winners were Marianne Jakobbäck and Göran Månsson with Ask The production of the brand new constructing started out on and around the dry dock of the antique naval backyard with an inauguration rite hosted by way of Prince Bertil on 2 November 1987.