Vasa Museum Tour: Swedish Empire History

Discover the fascinating history and social aspects of Östermalm on this engaging walking tour. Explore the rise of the Swedish Empire, the Stockholm syndrome, scientific innovations, and more!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Vasa Museum - We will visit the Vasa museum together!
What's Included
  • Vasa Museum entrance fee
  • Guide
Additional Information

The group will gather at the museum entrance to bypass the queue and enter together. The tour will begin with an exploration of the Swedish Empire and the war during which Gustav Adolf commissioned the ship. What was the ship’s purpose? Who were the adversaries at that time? During its construction, an incident occurred causing the ship to sink. What…

Location
Vasa Museum
Galärvarvsvägen
We will meet by the entrance of the museum, and skip the waiting line as we enter together.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Daniela_j
Apr 29, 2025
Motivated tour guide and excellent tour - We could feel Katherine's passion and knowledge about the Vasa. Very informative and interesting tour, all questions that came to mind were answered with great competence.
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Tonya
Apr 29, 2025
Best Tour —Vasa Museum - The tour was excellent! The tour guide was excellent. It was very interesting! Sophie is friendly and is very knowledgeable! I recommend this tour to everyone who visits Stockholm.
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Samantha_n
Apr 27, 2025
Highly recommended tour! - Katherine was a fantastic tour guide, she was very personable, knowledgeable, answered all our questions and felt like a friend. Would recommend this guided tour to anyone you visits Stockholm!
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Starlego
Apr 22, 2025
Possibly Stockholm's top attraction - Fascinating place. Very interesting history of ship building, the retrieval of the Vasa ship and its contents. It will take you a lot longer to get around here than you realise. It's more than just the ship which is amazing on its own to see. Guide was helpful and spoke English - although mumbled a lot so tricky to understand sometimes. Only downside is that there are few seats within the museum and you will get tired legs because there is so much to see! The seating is on the way out. Or there is a short film which is worth seeing too.
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V1398xgneilm
Apr 21, 2025
Spectacular ship, amazing history. - We chose the Tripadvisor guided tour with Aggie. She was full of excellent facts and funny boys if historical knowledge. 2 hour tour just flew by but this allowed for you to then pick out some time to revisit certain parts of the museum. The ship is a spectical to behold and we'll worth the visit and recommend the guided tour as a must.
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Jmwalters7
Apr 19, 2025
Great Tour! - Our family of four highly enjoyed this informative tour of the Vasa museum. Our tour guide from Poland was very knowledgeable and shared intriguing stories about the Vasa and Stockholm history. Tour was a good length and really enhanced our visit.
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Carmen_g
Apr 17, 2025
Fantastic! - Viola was wonderful! Good communication pre tour, passionate about her subject, good depth of knowledge.
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767serafeimp
Mar 20, 2025
An experience worth having a guide for! - The museum is about a very impressive ship that is displayed and its history. Viola (the guide) shared her excitement and knowledge with us which allowed us to appreciate the complex history that relates to the ship, but also learn about Swedish history and the Vasa family, than in turn allowed us to appreciate our later visit to the Royal Palace. I would very much recommend this tour. Thank you Viola, I sincerely do not think that we would have appreciated the museum as much without you there : )
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Daniel_l
Mar 19, 2025
Complete Vasa tour! - Great Vasa tour. Learned much more and saw more because of the guide. Was very thorough. We thank Sophie for making this our memorable! Very enthusiastic and knowledgeable!
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Sandra_lundh
Mar 6, 2025
Love Wasa museum! - Best swedish historical museum. Been here since I was a kid and always love it. Love the smell from the wood ship. You can walk there for hours. All ages!
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From $57
up to 6 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).