Maritime Museum & Aquarium
Harbourside museum of ship models, figureheads and seafaring history, with a Nordic aquarium below.
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This guide to the Maritime Museum and Aquarium in Gothenburg starts on a clear September day in seventeen forty-five, as the East Indiaman Götheborg and her captain, Eric Moréen, come home from China laden with tea, porcelain and silk. It touches the Swedish East India Company fortunes that shaped the city and the shipowners who paid for this building. Best heard in the Old Shipyard Park, within sight of the tower beside the entrance.
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