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Vasa Museum is a popular attraction that you can enjoy in Sweden. This is a museum opened in 1990. There are a wide variety of collections that you can see here. Most of them are about Vasa Ship. If you are interested to make a visit in this Vasa Museum, you may go to Stockholm to reach the Djurgarden Island. Millions of people have visited the Vasa Museum every year. I think this is your turn to make a visit and see the magnificent collection of this place especially the Vasa Ship. The Vasa Ship is the most notorious ship in this museum that will attract the visitors. This ship was built in 1628. It made her voyage but it ended unsuccessfully so that the ship sank on the ocean. The design of the construction was the cause of the sinking accident.

The Vasa Ship rediscovered in 300 years later. Now, it is housed in the Vasa Museum. You can examine the ship in any kinds of angels. You have to know that this magnificent ship is included as seven wonders in Sweden. You will never get bored visiting the Vasa Museum since you will be served with various other collections. Some of them may include the guided tours, excellent shops, Film Theater, historic artifacts, interesting exhibitions and the museum restaurant. More than 46,000 objects are available as the collection in this museum. The objects for the exhibition are only 20,000 pieces.

You may need to go to the Museum Store for most of the historic objects are kept there. You will be served with 26,000 objects in that store. The other section of this Vasa Museum that you should explore is the Tumba Store. This place lodges more than 3000 historic pieces. Most of the objects are big, large, and heavy.  The Vasa Museum only collects the objects found in the Vasa Ship itself. You will never see any objects from the other ships. The Vasa Museum just like its name only exhibits the Vasa ship objects to give the visitors a full understanding about the ship. This museum will only get new objects if they can dive and find the new objects on the site of shipwreck of Vasa Ship.

There are eleven exhibitions available in Vasa Museum. Let me give you some examples about the exhibitions. If you come to the Life on Broad exhibition, you will gain much information related on how the crew and people live in the ship. The Imagery Power exhibition tells about the Sculpture found in Vasa Ship and also the meaning of the sculpture. If you are interested to come to Vasa Museum, You may need to know the opening hours. It is open all year around. If you make a visit from June up to August, you may come from 8 am up to 6 pm. On September to May, you may need to come to enjoy the Vasa Museum collection from 10 am up to 5 pm.

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