Kalmar Läns Museum
The highlight of this museum is the exhibit of the remains of the royal warship Kronan, which sank in battle off Öland in 1676. Of the 850 people on board, only 42 survived. Since the wreck was discovered in 1980, more than 35,000 objects including cannons, wood sculptures, old coins, and a variety of items belonging to the ship’s ill-fated crew have been raised from the seabed—many of them astonishingly well preserved thanks to the low salt content and oxygen-poor environment of the Baltic Sea. Another permanent exhibition focuses on the Kalmar-born artist Jenny Nyström, famous for her paintings of gnomes.
