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Attractions Description |
The Åland Maritime Museum consists of two floors containing a great number of objects of interest. Experience the atmosphere of walking on the poop-deck with your back to the wind in a westerly gale. Figureheads from ships of bygone times all have their own stories to tell about shipwrecks, storms or an ignominious end at the ship-breakers.
Ship portraits are reminders of a time when ships looked like ships and every captain ordered a painting from the local artist, whether in Hull, Antwerp or Hongkong.
One of the most skilful model-builders in the world produced the majority of the models in our museum. Many of the models are made to the same scale, so that present-day viewers can see the difference between a Baltic schooner and an ocean-going windjammer. But small ships also sailed far, and stories about them mingle with pictures from life at sea in the grain trade from Australia round Cape Horn.
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Attractions Contact Information |
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The Åland Maritime Museum
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ADDRESS |
Hamngatan 2 |
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CITY / POSTCODE |
FIN-22101, Mariehamn, Åland |
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Mariehamn Area |
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REGION |
Western Finland |
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TEL |
+ 358 (0)18 19930 |
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EMAIL |
info (at) sjofartsmuseum.ax |
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WWW |
www.sjofartsmuseum.ax/ |
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How To Get There |
About 300 meters north of the ferry-terminals in the western harbor. Beside the 4-mastbark Pommern. |
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