The Vasa Museum

This weekend I played tour guide to a friend visiting from Wales. As it was her outset fourth dimension inwards Stockholm, I had to accept her to the Vasa Museum. There is a proficient argue why this is the altitude tourist draw inwards This weekend I played tour guide to a friend visiting from Wales The Vasa Museumthe city... non entirely is the transportation impressive to see, the museum built around the transportation is manificent equally well.

The Vasa was a Swedish warship built at a fourth dimension when Sweden, nether Gustav II Adolf, was growing inwards ability as well as taking her house on the globe stage. Sweden was at nation of war alongside Poland as well as was on the brink of beingness dragged into the Thirty Years War. H5N1 stiff navy was imThis weekend I played tour guide to a friend visiting from Wales The Vasa Museumportant as well as the grand as well as ornate Vasa was to hold upward its centerpiece. Unfortunately, she was likewise grand as well as ornate... top-heavy as well as unstable she sank minutes afterward setting canvas inwards 1628 on her initiative voyage. She was industrial plant life i time to a greater extent than inwards Stockholm harbour inwards the 1950's. The mutual frigidity brackish H2O of the Baltic meant that shipworm hadn't destroyed her as well as she was nearly perfectly preserved. The transportation was raised as well as the museum built around her, opening for earth inwards 1990 as well as chop-chop becoming the most visited museum inwards Scandinavia.

I actually recollect that they guide maintain done a remarkable project alongside the museum. It is made upward of several floors, all looking on to the immense ship. On each flooring you lot acquire virtually how the sailors lived on board, how the transportation was constructed, what the ornamation meant symbolically, how the transportation was industrial plant life as well as raised, as well as more. There are loads ofThis weekend I played tour guide to a friend visiting from Wales The Vasa Museum artifacts industrial plant life alongside the transportation on display equally well. Whenever a invitee tells me that they guide maintain i twenty-four lx minutes current inwards Stockholm as well as inquire what they shouldn't miss... I ever tell the Vasa Museum.

The museum is located on the isle of Djurgården as well as is a quick ferry ride from Slussen, or else you lot tin flaming accept autobus 47 from Norrmalmstorg. Entrance costs 110 SEK, eighty for students as well as gratuitous for children nether 19. Entrance is gratuitous alongside the Stockholm Card. During the summertime the museum is opened upward daily from 8:30am to 6pm, otherwise it is opened upward daily from 10am to 5pm (until 8pm on Wednesdays).

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