Vasamuseet - Stockholm, Sweden
N 59° 19.713 E 018° 05.503
34V E 334541 N 6580250
Although the Vasamuseet (English: Vasa Museum), a maritime museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, may look a bit rectangular-ish on one of its sides, it's anything but!
Waymark Code: WMPER4
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date Posted: 08/19/2015
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The museum is so odd-shaped because it was built to fit around the Vasa ship, a 17th century, 64-gun warship that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. There are even three masts on the roof outside to show the height of the ship's original masts.
"Facts:
The museum is built of concrete, with glued laminated timber panels in blue, tar black, the typical Swedish “Falun red”, yellow ochre and dark green. On the copper-clad ceiling there are masts and yards. The highest mast reaches the same height as Vasa's main mast, 52.5 metres from the keel.
Architects: Marianne Dahlbäck and Göran Månsson, MånssonDahlbäck Arkitektkontor.
Construction cost: SEK 200 million (up until the inauguration)
Volume of building: 117 000 cubic metres
Area: 12 540 square metres
Amount of concrete: approximately 12 000 cubic metres
Number of exterior wall corners: 55 units
Copper-clad area: 12 000 square metres
Pine floor: 4 000 square metres
Paving stone floor area: 1 500 square metres (approximately 155 000 paving stones)
Area for visitors: 7 600 square metres (of which 3 265 constitutes exhibition space).
Height of the ship's hall: 34 metres"
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