Press room

In September, a new maritime archaeology museum is opening on Djurgården in Stockholm. Please join us as a special guest at a press preview of Vrak – Museum of Wrecks on 16 September, and at the inauguration of the museum by His Majesty The King of Sweden on 22 September.

Maritime archaeologists at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks have today identified the wrecks found at Vaxholm in the autumn of 2019. The ships in question are Apollo and Maria, both built in 1648 and deliberately sunk in 1677 at Vaxholm.

The results are in. Wood samples from the two large warships found in November by divers outside the island of Vaxholm have now been analysed. The wood samples, taken from the ships’ massive oak planks, confirm assumptions by maritime archaeologists at the Vrak – Museum of Wrecks that the ships were built in the first half of the 17th century.