Marinmuseum

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Marinmuseum is Sweden’s national naval museum, located on Stumholmen island in Karlskrona. It preserves the country’s naval history and defense. One of Sweden’s oldest museums, it began in 1752 when King Adolf Frederick started a Model Room (Modellkammaren) to collect naval objects and ordered ship models and shipbuilding gear kept. From 1953 to 1997 it was housed in the Örlogshamnen barracks; before 1963 it was known as the Shipyard Museum (Varvsmuseet). In the 1960s ten figureheads by Johan Törnström were brought to the museum. Since June 1997 it has been on Stumholmen. The museum is run by Statens Maritima Museer, along with Stockholm’s Vasa Museum and the Maritime Museum. The building is rectangular with a pier into the water, and several museum ships surround the pier. An underwater tunnel with windows lets visitors view wrecks of 17th‑century ships. The collection includes many Swedish figureheads, including several by Törnström, such as the Dristigheten. The Marinmuseums Archives hold about 4,000 drawings and maps, plus pictures, paintings and models about submarines, shipbuilding, battles and life on Baltic ships. In June 2014 a new section opened to show HMS Hajen, the first Swedish submarine, and HMS Neptun, viewable from outside and inside. Four warships are docked outside as museum ships: HSwMS Bremon (minesweeper), HSwMS Vastervik (fast attack craft), HSwMS T-38 (torpedo boat) and HSwMS Jarramas (sail training ship).