The construction workers were tearing up a wall in connection with the rebuilding of the museum when, to their surprise, they found a package in brown wrapping paper with the cords. In the package they found Gothenburg newspapers from February 1931, copies of building drawings and a description of the Maritime Museum's creation.

Museum director Carina Sjöholm writes in a press release that she did not know that there was such a package.

- On the other hand, I know that they buried a box of drawings and information in the ground under the house when they took the first shovel in the 1930s. We have that on film and still images in the museum's archive, ”she says in the press release.

Part of the museum's history

However, the box has not yet appeared during the reconstruction, but the Maritime Museum Aquarium writes in the press release that they have found a great deal else at the excavation in the park in front of the museum. Among other things, a road from the 18th century, a kitchen building and a stable.

The contents of the package from 1931. Photo: Henrik Witt / Higab

The contents of the newly discovered package will be reviewed and utilized in the Maritime Museum's archive.

- It's part of the museum's history, after all. Maybe we should wall a package of drawings over the house we are building now, says Carina Sjöholm.