Vrak – Museum of Wrecks

Maritime archaeological museum in Stockholm

Location of Vrak – Museum of Wrecks

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The Vrak – Museum of Wrecks is a Swedish museum of maritime archeology in Stockholm in Sweden. It is managed by the Maritime Museum in Stockholm and was opened in September 2021 in Boat hangar No 2 at Galärvarvet (Galley Shipyard) at Djurgården.

Operations

The project is planned by the Maritime Museum in cooperation with the Marine Archeology Institute of the Södertörn University, Maris.^[1]

The Museum of Wrecks shows the Baltic Sea cultural heritage, especially some of the almost one hundred identified old shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea.^[2]

References

About marine archeology at the website of Sjöhistoriska museet (Swedish), läst den 10 August 2019

^ Statens Maritima Museer "Press releasem January 24, 2018, kl 12.00". Archived from the original on 25 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
^ Statens Maritima Museer "Östersjöns skatter". Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2018.