Many of our visitors have visited the Vasa Museum extensively in the 1960–70s and majority of 1980s. From their visit they have a recollection of seeing the Vasa, and comments how different it looks compared to today.
Vasa was located in a temporary museum building, called the Wasavarvet, which opened in 1961. Inside this museum the public could follow the preservation of Vasa. A photo of Wasavarvet can be found on Wikipedia (link leads to an external website).
In 1988 Vasa was moved to a new building: the Vasa Museum. The current building that house the ship is purposely built for Vasa and is the permanent museum.
Some parts of the old museum remain and is today a tram hall. Previously the premises was a museum, called the Aquaria Water Museum. Unfortunately, the Aquaria Water Museum closed permanently on 30 September 2018.