The life on a tall ship is hard, but at the same time an adventure that will stay in your memory forever. Onboard Pommern you will hear the young Johan, merely 16 years of age, experience his first voyage around the globe. Johan has signed on as a deck hand and you eavesdrop on how he finds life onboard. How he handles the crossing-the-line ceremony, the hard work and how he survives his first storm.
Everything that you hear has happened in real life on Pommern.
Johan is one out of seven crew members that you will get to know during your visit onboard Pommern. In the exhibition Pommern – 100 days under sail the ship is given life again and you are taken back to the 1930s. Join us on a fictious journey from Mariehamn, here on Åland, to Port Victoria in south Australia. There and back again, via Copenhagen, Cap Horn and London.
When you walk around on the weather deck you simultaneously follow a soundtrack that allows you to listen in on the crew. Hear the cook’s anger over the fact that the potatoes won’t last all the way to Australia – why is the steward always so tight? And why does the crew strike when they finally, after 100 days arrive in Port Victoria? And the captain, will he dare take the route around Cape Horn and subject his crew to the risk that the route brings?
VISITOR INFORMATION
The soundtrack aboard Pommern is about 25 minutes long and is recommended from the age of 12 and up. The admission fee includes headphones you can borrow and a sensor-controlled audio guide.
Join us on a trip around the globe
The life on a tall ship is hard, but at the same time an adventure that will stay in your memory forever. Onboard Pommern you will hear the young Johan, merely 16 years of age, experience his first voyage around the globe. Johan has signed on as a deck hand and you eavesdrop on how he finds life onboard. How he handles the crossing-the-line ceremony, the hard work and how he survives his first storm.
Learn all the secrets aboard together with Ruby the ship’s rat
How does a ship’s rat experience a round-the-world voyage on a tall ship? Can a rat have secrets that the rest of the crew don’t know about? Yup – if you trust the children’s guide, Ruby the ship’s rat, who shows the kids around the Pommern. The children’s soundtrack “Ruby’s voyage” is an audio tale written by the award-winning author Karin Erlandsson.
A ship for everyone
Accessibility has undergone big improvments onboard Pommern. To visit the ship all visitors will cross the bridge from the museum’s terrace. The bridge leads down on deck via a staircase and a lift. This means that even people in wheelchairs and people with strollers will easily be able to come on onboard.