Wednesday 4 August

Welcome to The Maritime Museum

Open tuesday-friday 10 am - 5 pm.
Café friday-sunday 10.30 am - 4.30 pm.
Playroom and workshop closed.
Free admission

Galärvarvet

Museum Ships open 3 June - 29 August

Hours: 11 am - 6 pm. Free admisson.

The Museum ships - the Icebreaker Sankt Erik, the lightship Finngrundet and visiting historic ships. Details: Visit Galärvarvet

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Welcome to The National Maritime Museum!

Museum Highlights

Highlights

Highlights selected by curators from the Maritime Museum. Enjoy! 

Närbild av Originalmodellen. Tre miniatyrfigurer på däck. I förgrunden detaljer av riggen. I bakgrunden miniatyr kanoner.
Collections

The library of the Maritime Museum is considered to comprise the largest collection of nautical books in the Nordic countries. Open to public Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12 am-4 pm.

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The archives contain documents related to shipping or leisure craft in one way or another. A major category is drawings of various ships and boats. Open to public Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12 am-4pm.

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The collections have enormous breadth and contain objects of every size – from entire icebreakers and saloon boats to detonators and brass buttons.

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The Maritime Museum’s collection of photographs contains over 900,000 images. The photo archive is open to public by special arrangement.

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Sjöhistoriska museet framifrån. En grupp människor står nedanför museets entrétrappa. Flaggstänger framför museet med hissade svenska flaggor.
History of a museum
History of a Museum

History of a museum

Here is the story of how Sweden, after many trials and tribulations, finally in 1938 got its Maritime Museum.

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