Sofia 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.
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.
Have you met the slobbish sea sausage and the misunderstood Kraken? In the new exhibition Sea Monsters at the Maritime Museum you get to explore a time long lost, when the earth was flat and the oceans were teeming with monsters. The Maritime Museum is open 7 days a week. Welcome!
Spring is here and the sailing ship Pommern is open. Pommern is open every day in May from 11 am to 4 pm. Last entry is at 3 pm. Buy your ticket at the Maritime Museum.
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. It is now proposed that the shipping company Gustaf Erikson’s archive 1913-1949 become part of the UNESCO World Heritage Register.
In a private home in Mariehamn one can find one of the world’s finest and most detailed ship models. It was built by an Åland sailor in a POW camp during World War II with neither drawings nor tools at hand. How did he do it? Who was he? Watch the moving documentary “Dreaming of Ponape – a man and his model”
