Seaways

– Four journeys througout History

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Sailing trade through the ages

From the Expiditions of the Pharaohs to the golden age of mercantile trade. The peasant trade of Ahvenanmaa as a unique phenomena.
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Science, Education and Democracy

Currently we are investigating the possibilities to expand the exhibition to include the historical evolution of democracy and education..
The meeting of four stories which together form our common world: How we evolved from belief as the main source of knowledge, to the path of science as foundation of school, democracy and modernity.
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Together these threads are woven into a story of how man placed himself in the centre, explored the world and built societys.
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The discoverys and A.E.Nordenskiöld

From cannons to charts – Nordenskiöld opened the world with knowledge. The nordic impact in History and the new non-imperialistic era.
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Northeast-passage and Vega

The first passthrough of the Northeast-passage became not only a scientific and geographic triumph f
– it turned into a journey of Understandine.

KUNSKAPENS HUS

– A Museum in Two Buildings

The meeting of the adventures of the Sea, the combat of Ideas and man's eternal longing for knowledge.
The royal thought is to preserve the knowledge about comercial shipping in the past.
To make it comprehensible for the modern visitor, the big models in the scale 1:5 give a tangible touch of past seatrade.
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Historical Ships' Room


The Lappo Norrgård old cowshed has been renovated with two beautiful exhibition facilities. In the HISTORICAL SHIPS' room on the hayloft more than 30 modelships of different shape and scale tell the story of sailing trade over a timespan of more than three thousand years.
In the BALTIC ROOM, the former dungeon the story of alandic peasant trade is told by the "nordic " galeas ELSA and the live fish cargo smack SIGRID. THe first two models in 1:5 scale are tacking towards the sunrise.

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The Baltic Room
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The New Build, © Tore Bäcksbacka

In the new build we tell about the heroic deed that the fennoswedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld fullfilled 1878-1879: The world's first passthrough of the Northeast-passage.
In the VEGA ROOM the threemasted barque VEGA is sailing prow northwards. The 12m long modelship of A.E.Nordenskiöld's auxiliar steam-engined polarship is the third model in 1:5 scale.
In the nearby café you can get physically nurished and rest the eye upon the steamdriven tendersloop ANNA, the biggest of the five helperboats upon Vega.

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The barque Vega, in 1:40 scale, © Sjöhistoriska Muséet, Stockholm