Vasa Museum
Description
The museum is built around the almost complete remains of the 17th Century battleship the Vasa which sunk, on it's first trip out of docks after being built. It lay on the bed of the lake until the late 1950's when it was rediscovered. From the point at which it was raised from the sea bed until it finally went on full display to the public still took nearly 30 years, with the entire wreck having to be saturated with a type of plastic to replace all the water in it. The museum tells the history of the ship, the background to the reasons why she was built and how she sunk, and the efforts that were gone to to rescue her from her grave
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Getting There
Latitude: 59.32798; Longitude: 18.091473
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Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (04/06/2005), and on time of last update (11/06/2022) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.