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Vasa Museum
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museum in Stockholm, Sweden
Key facts
- Established
- June 15, 1990 ( 1990-06-15 )
- Location
- Galärvarvsvägen 14, Djurgården , Sweden
- Type
- Maritime museum
- Visitors
- 1,495,760 (2017) , 1,246,986 (2023) , 1,353,453 (2024)
- Director
- Jenny Lind
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- maritime museum
- Named after
- Vasa
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Stockholm
- Headquarters
- Stockholm
- Official website
- www.vasamuseet.se
- Image
- Vasa model.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vasa Museum
- inception
- 1990-06-15
- Commons Institution page
- Vasamuseet
- visitors per year
- 1220429
- date of official opening
- 1990-06-15
- Commons gallery
- Vasa Museum
- hashtag
- vasamuseum
- located in/on physical feature
- Djurgården
- native label
- Vasamuseet
- street address
- Galärvarvsvägen 14
- social media followers
- 10200
- fee
- 0
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990. Together with other museums such as the Stockholm Maritime Museum, it belongs to the Swedish National Maritime-, Transport-, and Military Museums.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vasa Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.