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Sweden's National Maritime Museum
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
The third episode in our mini series on Maritime Sweden is a tour of Sweden's National Maritime Museum in Stockholm: Sjöhistorisa Museet. Listen in as Dr Sam Willis is guided around the museum by its curator, Jonas Hedberg. We hear about the founding of the purpose-built maritime museum in the 1930s; explore the extraordinary collection of ship models; artefacts including a magnificent figurehead from mid 1750s; stories of migrants to Sweden after the Second World War; a rail ferry that once transported Lenin across the Baltic; and a Swedish Royal Yacht from the eighteenth century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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