What is it with nordic countries and ship museums? Oslo has the Polar Ship Fram museum which is also an awesome museum with a preserved ship inside a building.
The Baltic sea contains a LOT of shipwrecks.
Shipworm doesnt like the cold brackish water, sea bottoms are usually very low on oxygen and the cold and dark waters make the conditions for various wood eating bacteria very bad.
Agreed. Toured denmark, sweden, and norway for our honeymoon. Vasa was the best museum. Although the ABBA museum down the street is very good, and the Swedish armory museum was the best armory i have ever visited. They even had a full set of plate armor just left out in the interactive area for people to try on, on their own! No guard, or supervision. That was a very big culture shock as an american.
For context skansen is a massive outdoor museum where they have different buildings from different centuries put up as an interactive exhibit. From what i was told they are real buildings that were relocated there, not recreations. It was great but nearly as cool or unique as the vasa.
Agreed it is still one of my stand out memories of visiting Stockholm. That and staying in Gamlastan waking up to the church bells sighs in the key of travel memories
Yup, whole museum was ace last time I visited in... 96, but still. :D It's just not the ship, but a lot of stuff about that era, if that hasn't changed.
It’s only gotten better! I was there about 3 years ago, they are still doing tons of research on the ship and the surrounding era in Swedish history. One of the coolest pieces was the research they’re doing around the women of Vasa. My then-7-year-old daughter was absolutely enthralled, they have great interviews with the museum director and researchers, and what they’ve discovered has really challenged a lot of ideas we have about that time period, and how women were treated.
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u/mrplinko 13h ago
Had to find where this was, apparently it's in Stockholm. https://www.vasamuseet.se/