The Vrak – Museum of Wrecks is a
Swedish
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museum of
maritime archeology in
Stockholm
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in Sweden. It is managed by the
Maritime Museum
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in Stockholm and was opened in September 2021 in ''Boat hangar No 2'' at
Galärvarvet (Galley Shipyard) at
Djurgården
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.
Operations
The project is planned by the Maritime Museum in cooperation with the Marine Archeology Institute of the
Södertörn University
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, Maris.
The Museum of Wrecks shows the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
cultural heritage, especially some of the almost one hundred identified old shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea.
[Statens Maritima Museer ]
References
About marine archeology at the website of Sjöhistoriska museet (Swedish) läst den 10 August 2019
External links
Official websiteVideo on the Baltic Sea cultural heritage
Maritime archaeology
Museums in Stockholm
Maritime museums in Sweden
2021 establishments in Sweden
Museums established in 2021
21st-century establishments in Stockholm
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