Uudenkaupungin Museo

A local museum in Uusikaupunki (Nystad), a coastal town in southwest Finland founded 1617 and historically a sailing-ship and shipbuilding center. Its maritime collections cover the town’s nineteenth-century deep-sea sailing fleet and the salt and timber trade that built local fortunes. The 1721 Treaty of Nystad, ending the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia, was signed in the town, a point the museum’s local-history holdings record.