Vasa Museum

Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun Warship Vasa sunken in August 1628. On 7 floors one gets insight to the ship and learns about the hard life of both seamen and soldiers. The displays don’t only show a masterpiece of ship, explain its construction (and problems) but also give some historical background and bring people of long time ago to life.

Vasa Museum
model of the warship
Four decks – people working
Vasa being salvaged in 1961
model: construction of the ship

The ship was fully painted and decorated

A breeze brought the vessel to heel over. Since the gunports were all open the vessel took on water and sank only 120 m from land. 30 people perished with the boat.

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