Vaxholm Fortress Museum
Vaxholm Fortress Museum is a museum in Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County which is located on Kastellet. Vaxholm Fortress Museum is situated nearby to Rindö Redoubt, as well as near the village Norra Lagnö.Photo: Cbsahin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum of the Swedish Armed Forces
- Also known as: “Vaxholm”, “Vaxholm Fort”, “Vaxholms Fästnings Museum”, “Vaxholmsfastning”, and “Vaxholmsfästning”
- Address: Kastellet 1, Vaxholm, 185 99
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vaxholms Hotell and Rindö Redoubt.
Vaxholms Hotell
Hotel
Photo: Boberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaxholms Hotell is situated 220 metres west of Vaxholm Fortress Museum.
Rindö Redoubt
Photo: Alers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rindö Redoubt is situated 530 metres northeast of Vaxholm Fortress Museum.
Vaxholm Church
Church
Photo: Torbjörn L, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaxholm Church is a church in central Vaxholm, Sweden. The chapel is a single-nave building built in the Neoclassical style. It was completed in 1803 according to drawings by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz and Olof Tempelman. Vaxholm Church is situated 630 metres west of Vaxholm Fortress Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaxholm and Norra Lagnö.
Vaxholm
Town
Photo: Szilas, Public domain.
The Stockholm archipelago, Stockholms skärgård or skärgården, is a group of thousands of islands in the Svealand region, extending east of Stockholm in the Baltic Sea.
Norra Lagnö
Village
Photo: Larske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norra Lagnö is a locality situated on a peninsular on the northern shore of the island of Värmdö in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago. From an administrative perspective, it is located in Värmdö Municipality and Stockholm County and has 332 inhabitants as of 2010. Norra Lagnö is situated 6 km southeast of Vaxholm Fortress Museum.
Svinninge
Village
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 3.0.
Svinninge is a locality situated in Österåker Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 1,636 inhabitants in 2010. Svinninge is situated 7 km northwest of Vaxholm Fortress Museum.
Vaxholm Fortress Museum
- Categories: military museum, tourist attraction, heritage site in Sweden, and tourism
- Location: Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.40288° or 59° 24′ 10″ northLongitude
18.35847° or 18° 21′ 31″ eastElevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
9FFWC935+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 3038892949OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Vaxholm Fortress Museum” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Vaxholms Fästnings Museum”
- Dutch: “Vestingmuseum van Vaxholm”
- Finnish: “Vaxholmin linnoitusmuseo”
- Finnish: “Vaxholms Fästnings Museum”
- German: “Vaxholm Festungsmuseum”
- German: “Vaxholms Fästnings Museum”
- Russian: “Vaxholms Fästnings Museum”
- Russian: “Музей крепости Ваксхольм”
- Swedish: “Vaxholms fästnings museum”
- Swedish: “Vaxholms Fästnings museum”
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