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The Vasa Museum (''Vasamuseet''), is a Maritime Museum in Stockholm , Sweden . Located on the island of Djurgården , the museum displays the only intact 17th Century Ship , the '' Vasa ''. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and is the most visited museum in Scandinavia . After the newly raised ''Vasa'' had been towed into the Gustav V drydock in Sweden's naval shipyard in Stockholm in April 1961 she was put down on a specially built floating pontoon on which a superstructure made of aluminum sheets was built. The temporary building, ''Wasavarvet'', was intended as a space for the preservation treatment but it was also equipped with visitors galleries in two levels around the walls inside the housing. In 1981 the Swedish government decided that a permanent ''Vasa'' museum was to be constructed and an architects' competition for the design of the museum building was organized. 384 architects sent in models of their ideas of the most suitable building for the ''Vasa''. The commission to design the museum went to the Swedish architect team Göran Månsson and Marianne Dahlbäck. The construction work began with an inauguration ceremony performed by His Royal Highness Prince Bertil on 2 November 1987. During the summer of 1989 visitors were allowed on to the construction site and 228 000 people visited the half finished museum. The ''Vasa'' museum was officially inaugurated on 15 June 1990. EXTERNAL LINKS The view entitled "A view of the Vasa's Bow" is in fact the Stern, i.e the back of the ship, not the front. |