This museum houses the only remaining, intact 17th-century ship in the world. Commissioned in 1625 as a warship, the Vasa sunk on its maiden voyage. After the wreck was salvaged in 1961 the lower rig, masts, stays and shrouds were rebuilt. So you now see the whole, ornately carved, vessel looking just as it would have when it set out to defend Sweden's Baltic empire all those years ago.
The Vasa Museum
Box 27131
SE-102 52 Stockholm
Sweden
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See the Mary Rose in Portsmouth before, otherwise you will be pitifully disappointed once you've seen the Vasa. This is a real ship, not a bunch of rotten spars. Spectacular setting too!
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