VRAK opened in September 2021 and has increased its visitor numbers every year. In 2025, part of the permanent exhibition was rebuilt to make room for Vikings Before Vikings – a temporary exhibition produced by Saaremaa Museum in Estonia. The exhibition about the earliest Vikings has made a strong contribution to the increase in visitor numbers.
“We are incredibly happy that so many people have discovered VRAK and visited us during 2025. It has been a fantastic year, in which the Viking exhibition based on maritime finds, along with a public programme connected to it, has strongly contributed to this success,” says museum director Odd Johansen.
VRAK – Museum of Wrecks is located on the island Royal Djurgården in Stockholm and tells the stories of the people who for 10,000 years have depended on the Baltic Sea as a livelihood, a sea route, a battlefield – and a grave. The unknown world of the Baltic Sea is brought to life through exhibitions using creative digital interpretation, as well as public programmes and educational activities.
VRAK is part of a government museum authority that manages and develops the Swedish Naval Museum, the Naval Museum, the Vasa Museum, Swedish Railway Museum, and from 1 January 2026 also the Army Museum and the Swedish Air Force Museum. The authority works with cultural heritage with the vision of broadening people’s perspectives through knowledge, experiences and engagement. Learn more at www.statensmuseermtf.se/en