Throughout Europe, “ships of discovery” await including the
Vasa, a humongous Viking-era warship that capsized and sank in 1628, while sailing from the harbor in
Stockholm, Sweden.
Spending 333 years on the sea bed, this wooden warship was protected by mud and cold Baltic water (which avoided worms and bacteria from feeding on the wood). Today, this salvaged, beautifully restored Viking ship is considered the world’s best preserved 17th-century vessel. It s displayed in all its glory in Stockholm’s
Vasamuseet, Sweden’s and
Scandinavia’s most visited museum.
“Start your morning with a visit to the Vasamuseet (Vasa Museum), one of Sweden’s most popular attractions,
Six centuries of maritime masterpieces: Final Boijmans Next Door event in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam
Paul Signac, Le port de Rotterdam (De haven van Rotterdam), 1907, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Foto door Studio Tromp.
ROTTERDAM
.-Boijmans weighs anchor in the Maritime, where the two Rotterdam art collections come together in a new exhibition Maritime Masterpieces, the eleventh and final Boijmans Next Door show. Discover the unknown maritime world behind acclaimed works of art from Bosch to Van de Velde the Elder and other artists from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
Star Works from Two Collections
The seventy or so works from six centuries of art in the brand-new exhibition Maritime Masterpieces, on view in the Maritime Museum Rotterdam tell the story of shipping and ports and of the people involved. The collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Maritime Museum Rotterdam are coming together to shed light on new connections. A combin