At the Swedish National Maritime, Transport and Military Museums there are extensive collections, archives and libraries. Since 2018, the Civil Aviation Collections and the Road and Traffic History Collections in Kjula are part of SMMTF.
The Army Museum's Collections
The Swedish Army Museum’s collections consist of more than 100,000 objects dating from the 16th century to the present day, including uniforms, colours, weapons, vehicles, and medical and protective equipment. The archive illustrates military life and work through the centuries – from 17th-century cannon drawings to 20th-century conscription photographs – and the museum library holds military history literature of all kinds.
The Army Museum website (external link)
Search the Army Museum collections on DigitaltMuseum (in Swedish) (external link)
The Army Museum's collections also include the The Peace Archive, a digital archive that documents Sweden’s participation in international peacekeeping operations throughout history, and The National Trophy Collections, one of Sweden’s oldest museum collections with around 4,000 colours, standards, musical instruments and fortress keys captured from the enemy in war.
About the Peace Archive (in Swedish) (external link)
About the National Trophy Collections (in Swedish) (external link)
The Maritime Museum's collections
In the Maritime Museum's rich collections, there are approximately 900 000 photographs, 50 000 objects and 45 000 ship and boat drawings that connect to the museum's subject area: Sweden's seafaring and maritime cultural heritage. The collections include, among other things, unique navigational instruments, leisure boats, models and marine archaeological material.
The Maritime Museum's website (external link)
The Naval Museum's collections
The Naval Museum's collections consist of more than 55 000 objects, 20 000 drawings, 250 metres of shelves containing archival documents, 50 000 photographs, and about 20000 books. The collection dates back to 1752. A selection of the collection is displayed in the exhibitions at the museum. Most of the objects are however preserved in the museum storages and archives.
The Naval Museum's website (external link)
The Railways Museum's collections
The Railway Museum's collections is of international top class and consist of over 300 vehicles from the mid-1800s to the present day, including Prins August which is the world's oldest operable locomotive. The collections do not only consist of vehicles but also objects, photographs, archives and books.
The Railway Museum's website (external link)
The Swedish Air Force Museum's Collections
The collections of the Swedish Air Force Museum reflect the journey from the pioneering era of aviation in the 1910s to today’s JAS aircraft. They include aircraft, compasses, medical kits, telephone switchboards, jet engines and uniforms.
The archive holds photographs, patent applications and aircraft accident investigation reports, while the museum library contains literature on aviation history and aeronautical engineering of all kinds.
The Swedish Air Force Museum website (external website)
Search the Swedish Air Force Museum collections on DigitaltMuseum (external website)
The Vasa Museum's collections
The Vasa Museum collections include the more than 40 000 objects that were found in and around the ship. The objects and ship give a unique picture of everyday life at sea and on land, and of shipbuilding techniques and nautical warfare in the early 1600s. Objects not on display are stored in one of our two museum stores.
The Vasa Museum's website (external link)
The Transport History Collections
The transport history collections constist of the Road and Traffic collections, the Civil Aviation Collections, and the Railway History Collections (which form part of the Swedish Railway Museum).
Read more about the collections via the feature box at the bottom of the page.
Search the collections
SMMTF's collections are available and searchable at the website DigitaltMuseum.
DigitaltMuseum (in Swedish) (external link)
Collection and lending
An important part of SMMTF's mission is to enrich the collections through new acquisitions. This is done both through proactive collections, such as contemporary documentation, and reactive collections, such as offers of gifts. The goal of the collection is to increase knowledge of the authority's subject area: the maritime and transport historical cultural heritage. SMMTF also offers loans from the authority's collections, as it is a way of making them available and spreading knowledge about the maritime and transport historical cultural heritage to a larger audience and in more places in Sweden and abroad.
Offers of gifts to or questions about loans from the museum collections are made to the registrar by e-mail.
Email: registrator@statensmuseermtf.se
Digitization
SMMTF aims for a living maritime and transport historical cultural heritage that is constantly developed and made visible. Digital resources and technologies are important tools for that. Therefore, SMMTF works to ensure that the maritime and transport historical cultural heritage is digitized, accessible and usable for everyone and of high quality.
