The Swedish Naval Museum

Surrounded by the historical setting of the island of Stumholmen in Karlskrona, the beautiful and famous Naval Museum stretches out on a pier into the water.

The Naval Museum is Sweden’s national museum for the history of the Swedish Navy. In addition to exhibitions - the museum contains object collections, a drawings archive, a photographic archive and a library.

The Naval Museum’s inception goes back to 1752, when the model chamber in Karlskrona was founded by the then king Adolf Fredrik. The model chamber held a number of ship models and constructional models.

Today these fascinating and extremely detailed models form the heart of the Naval Museum together with the galleon figureheads in the museum’s famous Figurehead Hall, and one of the world’s finest collections of museum ships.