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Museifartygen: the lightship Finngrundet and ice-breaker Sankt Erik outside Vasamuseet
United Kingdom, Canada, and boasts an impressive array of 7 Museifartygen
Belarus, Ukraine and Nigeria. exhibits. The highlight of the Galärvarvet. Map 5 F2. Tel 08-519 549
Their names and their fate will museum is the Absolut Art 00. @ 44. v 7 4 Djurgårdsfärja.
never be forgotten. Collection, which includes over Open 22 May–30 Aug: 11am–6pm
So reads the inscrip tion on 800 works by famous daily; also during various public
this national memorial to the international artists such as Andy holidays, ring for details. 8 & =
vic tims of the Estonia disaster Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien ∑ sjohistoriska.se
adjoining the cemetery of Hirst and Louise Bourgeois. The
Galärkyrkogården. It was works were produced in The two vintage ships moored
designed by the Polish artist conjunction with the advertising alongside Vasamuseet are
Miroslaw Balka (b. 1958), who campaigns that helped make both fine examples of the ships
created it together with the two Absolut one of the best-known built to handle various tasks in
landscape architects Anders brands in the industry. It is the Swedish waters during the early
Jönsson and Thomas Andersson. first time these works have been 20th century. The lightship
Unveiled on 28 September united under one roof. Finngrundet, built in 1903, used
1997, the memorial is made of The museum is housed in to be anchored during the ice-
blasted granite and forms a Stockholm’s historic Galärskjulen, free season on the Finngrund
roofless, triangular room with or “galley sheds”, which date from banks in the southern Gulf of
11-m (36-ft) long sides and a the 18th century. The sheds were Bothnia. In the 1960s lightships
height of 2.5 m (just over 8 ft). modelled on a Venetian design started to be replaced by
The exact position of where the and were built for the galleys of permanent automatic
ferry sank is given on a metal the Royal Navy, which were stored lighthouses, so Finngrundet was
ring around a tree in the triangle. on land in these buildings. withdrawn from service and
With relatives’ consent, the names Visitors can dine at the became a museum ship. At 31 m
of most of the dead have been museum’s elegant fine dining (102 ft) long and 6.85 m (22 ft
carved in the walls. restaurant, which serves dishes 6 in) wide, with a draught of 3.1 m
made from seasonal, locally (10 ft 2 in), she was designed for
5 Spritmuseum sourced organic produce. a crew of eight. The light had a
range of 11 nautical miles.
Galärskjulen, Djurgården, 6 Vasamuseet Built in 1915, Sankt Erik was
Djurgårdsvägen 38. Map 6 A3. Sweden’s first seagoing ice-
Tel 08-121 313 00.  Karlaplan. See pp94–6. breaker. This classic Baltic model
@ Spårvagn City. Open 10am–6pm slides up over the ice and crushes
daily in summer; 10am–5pm daily in it. She also has a system that
winter. & 8 - = enables the ship to be rocked
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sideways to loosen the ice and
widen the channel. One of the
The Museum of Spirits looks at two three-cylinder engines is
the unique history of alcoholic Sweden’s largest working marine
beverages in Sweden. Spanning steam engine. The ice-breaker is
two floors, the museum is the 60 m (197 ft) long and 17 m (56 ft)
only one of its kind in the country Snaps label, Spritmuseum wide and needs a crew of 30.

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