It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, and nearly 400 years later, the ship is suffering a slow, inexorable decay in Sweden's Vasa Museum ... to replace the water inside the wood and prevent ...

Today, the Vasa Museum is the most visited museum in Scandinavia, drawing in more than one million visitors a year. In addition to the majestic ship, the museum houses a number of interesting ...

Since then, the ship, which is largely intact, has been exhibited at the popular Vasa Museum. But preserving ... the ship where it's strongest on the inside," he added. The first phase of the ...

The wood in the royal ship Vasa has been seriously affected by ... During the rainy summer of 2000, the humidity varied dramatically inside the museum, and during this time white and yellow ...

Since then, the ship, which is largely intact, has been exhibited at the popular Vasa Museum. But preserving ... the ship where it’s strongest on the inside,” he added. The first phase of ...

The remains of the ship can be found in Stockholm’s Vasa Museum. According to the museum, it is the only preserved 17th-century ship in the world, and the museum is a place for historical and ...

Compared to the previous year -- which also welcomed a record-breaking number of guests-- visitor numbers to the Vasa Museum increased by 154,084 in 2017, an 11 percent rise. That included a landmark ...

director of research at the Vasa Museum. "But the structure of the hull is four or five layers of timber thick that I can't see and can't get to." The wrecks of the two later ships in the same ...

The royal warship Vasa is seen at the Vasamuseet museum in Stockholm on April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Anders Wiklund, File) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A U.S. military laboratory has helped ...

Unlike the Vasa, whose salvaged wreck is now a Stockholm museum, the wreck of the Äpplet had long eluded marine archaeologists. Both ships were created by shipbuilder Hein Jacobsson, with Äpplet ...

But it’s with good reason that The Vasa Museum captures the attention of so many tourists lacking any previous hint of enthusiasm for maritime memorabilia. The 69 metre-long wooden vessel ...