Maritime Museum, Maritime museum in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
The Maritime Museum is a building in Sweden dedicated to the history and technology of seafaring. It holds ship models, nautical instruments, old charts, and objects from maritime life spanning several centuries.
The museum was created by a 1932 parliamentary decision merging the navy's naval-history collections with those of the Swedish Maritime Museum Association. A donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation funded the building, on condition it not be functionalist. It opened on 28 May 1938, inaugurated by King Gustaf V.
The museum shows how maritime life shaped Sweden's past and present, with collections that tell stories of people who lived and worked on the water. Exhibits reveal how the sea has always been central to Swedish life and identity.
The museum is open on most days of the week and offers both permanent and changing exhibitions to visitors. Note that certain areas may not always be open to the public, so it's helpful to check conditions beforehand.
The museum's boat collection, ranging from canoes to skerry cruisers, was long shown in Boat Hall 2 at Galärvarvet; it moved to a purpose-built Boat Magazine on the island of Rindö in 2017 and opened there in 2018. The hall it left became Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in 2021.
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