welcome

– Four journeys througout History

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.

Science, Education and Democracy

The journey of Knowledge and Ideas from Athens to our time. Religious and secular pedagogic influence change places - the fountainhed of Democracy.

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.

Together these threads are woven into a story of how man placed himself in the centre, explored the world and built societys.

The discoverys och A.E.Nordenskiöld

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

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.

Loftet

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.
The COWSHED has been renovated with two beautiful exhibition facilities. On the loft more than 30 modelships of different shape and scale tell the story of sailing trade. In the former dungeon the first two models in 1:5 scale are tacking towards the sunrise.

Slättoppad galeas och fraktsump

The ATELIER, newly built with a café and an exihibtionroom, tell about th heroic deed that the fennoswedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld fullfilled with s/s Vega: The world's first passthrough of the Northeast-passage.

In the nearby atelier the 12m long modelship of the threemasted barque Vega sailing prow northwards.

Seaways