Saturday 19 September

Today at the Maritime Museum

Open: tuesday-sunday 10 am - 5 pm
Café is open 11-4 with limited selection.

The Maritime Museum adheres to the guidelines and recommendations issued by Swedish expert authorities and by the Swedish government, regarding Covid-19. We have prepared a safe museum experience, and welcome a limited number of visitors per day. We aid our visitors to ensure they maintain a safe distance to one another, and grant each other the space to explore the museum at their leisure. 

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Welcome to the Maritime Museum!

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

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

History of a museum
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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Highlights

Highlights selected by curators from the Maritime Museum. Enjoy! 

Museum Highlights
Närbild av Originalmodellen. Tre miniatyrfigurer på däck. I förgrunden detaljer av riggen. I bakgrunden miniatyr kanoner.
Maritime archaeology
Wrecks

Nowhere else in the world are there as many well preserved wooden wrecks as in the Baltic.Archaeologists believe there may be more than 100 000 of them! That makes the Baltic a museum under the sea.

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