Welcome!

The Maritime Museum is open but with some limitations. In order to make your visit as safe and secure as possible the museum has taken several precautions. The number of visitors allowed into the museum will be restricted and small spaces closed off. 

Collections

Collections

Search the Collections

A large part of the collections is searchable online at DigitaltMuseum (mainly information in Swedish).

Search the Collections

A large part of the collections is searchable online at DigitaltMuseum (mainly information in Swedish).
Collections

Archives

Archives

The archives of the Maritime Museum contain documents related to shipping or leisure craft in one way or another. A major category is drawings of various ships and boats. The museum is also the holder of the archives of the famous Swedish 18th century shipbuilder, F. H. af Chapman, with both written documents and drawings.
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Photographic archives

Photographic archives

The Maritime Museum's collection of photographs contains over 900,000 images.
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Library

Library

The library of the Maritime Museum is considered to comprise the largest collection of nautical books in the Nordic countries.
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Objects

Objects

Over nearly a century, the Maritime Museum has collected approximately 60,000 museum objects that tell stories of maritime activities, both civilian and military, through the ages. The collections have enormous breadth and contain objects of every size – from entire icebreakers and saloon boats to detonators and brass buttons.