The Maritime Museum ( swedish : Sjöhistoriska museet ) in Stockholm, Sweden is a museum for naval history, merchant shipping and shipbuilding. [ 1 ] Located in the Gärdet section of the inner-city district Östermalm, the museum offers a bird’s-eye view of the bay Djurgårdsbrunnsviken. The building was designed by architect Ragnar Östberg and built in 1933–36. [ 2 ]
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The museum houses about 900,000 photos, 50,000 objects and 45,000 drawings, all related to the sea, seashore, ships and boats, past and stage. [ 3 ] A major depart of the collection, the boats, are housed in Boat Hall 2 at Galärvarvet in Stockholm. The boat solicitation ranges from canoes to Skerry cruisers. [ 4 ] On the bottom floor there are, among other things, exhibits on naval history including several detail models of eighteenth hundred ships. The second gear floor includes exhibits on swedish commercial fleets. [ 1 ] In the basement is a replica of a cabin in King Gustav III ‘s transport Amphion, along with the original stern from the ship. [ 5 ]
list of historical ships [edit ]
The Maritime Museum is responsible for the listing of historic ships in Sweden. Both ships and pleasure boats of historic meaning can be listed. While the list offers no legal protection or obligations, it gives the owner of the craft certain privileges .
computer architecture [edit ]
The lightly curved build, inspired by the neoclassicist plan of Olof Tempelman ( 1746–1816 ), acts as a background for the encompassing parking lot where alfresco concerts are held each class. It was the last major commission of Ragnar Östberg and was built on the placement for the Stockholm Exhibition ( 1930 ) ( Stockholmsutställningen 1930 ). As the exhibition was an important Functionalism materialization, the museum besides mark the point of view of the architect in the debate the introduction of Functionalist style caused in Sweden. [ 2 ] The cardinal cupola is entirely built of brick. [ 6 ] The build besides houses a model workshop, wood patronize, photograph studio, archives and a library. In the 1970s, a film and lecture anteroom was added and in the 1990s a café. [ 5 ] Outside of the museum is a bronze statue called The Sailor ( Sjömannen ), a memorial to the swedish sailors who died during World War II. The statue was made by artist Nils Sjögren in 1952, fair before he died. The statue was inaugurated in 1953. [ 7 ]
Concerts [edit ]
Dagens Nyheter concert in 2014 Theconcert in 2014
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Starting in 1975, alfresco concerts and music festivals are held in the park in front of the museum. [ 8 ] The annual concerts arranged by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are compared with, and inspired by, The Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. [ 8 ] Among the other artists who have performed at events held at the museum are Oasis, Lisa Nilsson, [ 9 ] Kent, [ 10 ] Pearl Jam, [ 11 ] Sarah Dawn Finer, [ 12 ] Axwell, [ 13 ] and Per Gessle. [ 14 ]
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- Pictures of ship models in the museum, from visit in June 2011 High resolution photos
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