Tall Ships Races
The Maritime Museum and Pommern will be in the middle of the festivities during the Tall Ships Races 24-27 July 2024. We are open an extra hour, 10-18.
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Art exhibition: Maritime Horizon
This summer you can enjoy beautiful paintings in the small gallery on the lower floor of the museum. Marine painter and boatologist TH Norling will be showing his work from 6 June to 18 August. Norling works classically with oil on canvas, but also with acrylic on old worn-out sail canvas. During the Tall Ships Races 24-27 July, TH Norling will be on site in the exhibition to talk ships and painting with visitors.
The Maritime Museum’s archive material is available digitally
The Åland Maritime Museum has launched a digital archive, where, among other things, the Pommern ship journals and the Åland muster rolls can be read as original documents wherever you are.
”When I leaf through my diary I meet many different hands”
A blank diary is nothing but paper and covers. But when it is filled with thoughts, reflections, notes; when it’s filled with the very essence of a person, that is when it becomes invaluable. A time capsule that helps us get very close to people who lived in a by-gone era. Often, they were not that different from us.
Tools for a Jack of all trades
Greasing, painting, splicing wire and rope, mending and making sails, coiling, building, forging and repairing… A deep-sea sailor is a true Jack of all trades and needs a score of specialised tools.
Åland’s first UNESCO honour – Gustaf Erikson’s shipping company archive included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register.
Gustaf Erikson once owned Åland, Finland and the world’s largest sailing ship company. The archive that was left behind provides a unique insight into our shipping history. The autonomous island province of Åland has received its first UNESCO heritage honour as the Gustaf Erikson’s shipping archives were included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Register, thus joining the same echelon of invaluable cultural heritage as England’s Magna Carta, the French Declaration of Human Rights, the Gutenberg Bible and Isaac Newton’s manuscripts.
