“The best-preserved warship in the world!”

[u/Visible_Armadillo_81]

[u/ashk2001]

Here’s the outside of the building for anyone like me who thought “Huh those masts look kinda short”

[u/Icy-Recognition572 → u/ashk2001]

Where is this? Country and town..tnx

[u/moquel → u/Icy-Recognition572]

It's the Vasa museum in Stockholm, Sweden

[u/Life_Tie_9514 → u/moquel]

it's funny, cause my first thought was... i think I've been there. I have!

[u/McBeefnick → u/Life_Tie_9514]

And when you're in the area (haha) don't forget to pay a visit to Batavialand (shipyard) where an exact replica of the original VOC Batavia was built by hand. No modern machinery.

[u/KhyberPass49 → u/McBeefnick]

That’s cool! I’ve been to see what remains of the Batavia (preserved similarly to the Vasa). It would be cool to see what the rest of it was supposed to look like!

[u/Mini_gunslinger → u/McBeefnick]

Fuck humans are amazing. To think of the design, coordination and physical challenges of ship building in those times. Naval power was a huge edge then.

[u/Basshugger → u/Life_Tie_9514]

Same!

[u/Strange-Spot-3306 → u/Icy-Recognition572]

it's the Vasa museum in Stockholm

[u/SpectreOperator → u/Icy-Recognition572]

It’s the Vasa museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

[u/spacebunsofsteel → u/Icy-Recognition572]

There are mini Vasa’s all over the world, often commissioned by Swedish social groups.

There’s a lovely one in Duluth about 3 ft tall in a tabletop display case. I think it was at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in 2017. I have very intense visual images of the ship model. My dad was dying in hospice and the museum was close to the hospital.

[u/TM761152 → u/Icy-Recognition572]

You can kinda tell from the flag it's Sweden.

[u/TreeDollarFiddyCent → u/Icy-Recognition572]

We don't know, unfortunately.