The Vasa warship that sank in Stockholm harbor in the 1600s spent 333 years on the sea bed. ... so I was keen to get inside the confines of an air conditioned museum.

The Vasa Museum is one of the most popular attractions in Stockholm. ... Elevated across several stories, the Vasa offers a rare glimpse inside the world of seafaring in the 17th century.

Visitors at the stern of the Vasa. Few museums get personal, but in Stockholm's Vasa Museum you're introduced to Ivar, 173 centimetres tall, aged around 50, with worn teeth and a healed injury on ...

The Vasa Museum in Stockholm displays the Vasa, ... However, the skeletal remains found inside the boat “posed something of an archaeological problem for us,” Dr. Hocker said.

The ship is on display at Stockholm's Vasa Museum, one of Sweden's most popular tourist destinations. Step inside and you're greeted by a breathtaking sight — the bow of a nearly four hundred year-old ...

The Vasa Museum is one of the great contemporary Swedish success stories, yet ironically enough it has been forged from one of the nation’s biggest embarrassments. Perhaps the biggest of them all. The ...

The Swedish Warship Vasa never made it out of Stockholm harbor. 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 ...

Race to save Sweden's 17th century warship in preservation project A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank ...

In total, Vasa managed to sail for only 25 minutes, foundering less than a mile. Ultimately, nobody was punished for the whole affair, despite the furious King of Sweden’s demands that someone be held ...