Press room

Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm has been awarded the Museum of the Year 2026 award. The award is given to a Swedish museum that has shown evidence of innovative thinking and socially-rooted activities.

Vrak – Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm, Arbetets Museum in Norrköping and Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg have been nominated for the Museum of the Year 2026 award.

With less than two hours left of the museum’s opening year 2025, Tiffany Ritter from Adelaide, Australia, entered VRAK together with her family and thereby became the museum’s 100,000th visitor. This marks a visitor record for the museum since its opening.

On 11 April, Vikings Before Vikings, a groundbreaking new exhibition, opens at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks. It unveils a remarkable archaeological discovery: two 8th-century burial ships that redefine what we thought we knew about the origins of the Vikings.

Maritime archaeologists from the Museum of Wrecks have investigated a shipwreck that may be the oldest known carvel-built vessel from the Nordic region.

The beginning of the Viking Age is usually dated to the year 793 when Norwegian Vikings looted the Lindisfarne monastery in England, but findings from ship burials from Salme on the island Saaremaa in Estonia show that Vikings from what is today Sweden made armed expeditions to the Baltics already before the end of the 8th century.

Maritime archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks and the Swedish Navy have teamed up to further investigate Äpplet, Vasa’s sister ship. What have they uncovered?

Just over a year after Vasa’s sister ship Äpplet was discovered by maritime archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks and the Swedish navy, new investigations reveal startling new finds.

Maritime archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, together with the Swedish Navy, have made unexpected new discoveries during dives on the 17-century shipwreck Äpplet.

Maritime archaeologists from Vrak – Museum of Wrecks have discovered the wreck of Äpplet (the Apple), a 17th century warship. Launched in 1629, Äpplet was built by the same shipbuilder as the warship Vasa one year earlier. Measurement data, the ship’s technical details, wood samples and archival data confirm that it is indeed Äpplet, Vasa’s sister ship.