The Vasa Museum (Vasa Museet), located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden, is a maritime museum that displays the world's only surviving 17th century ship, HMS Wasa. The museum, which was inaugurated in 1990, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia.
As the Vasamuseum was predestinated to become a major monumental building the Government decided that the construction of a permanent Vasamuseum was to be preceeded by an architects competition.
Construction of a permanent museum building was on the agenda of the Board of the Vasa that was the organization responsible for the Vasa project during the years 1959 until the 30th of June 1964.
Because the new Vasamuseum was constructed with the main part of an old drydock inside the building it was possible to move the whole floating pontoon with the Vasa hull inside the temporary protection encasement into the museum (figure 5).
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