The Vasamuseet in Stockholm

I believe the Vasamuseet (Vasa Museum) is one of the highlights in Stockholm, the city of many museums. This is one of the most unique museums because it displays the ONLY almost fully intact 17th century ship that sank off the coast of Stockholm. The ship, Vasa (the pride of the great Swedish king who ruled the Scandinavian in the 17th century) sank on its maiden vogage in 1628. It was suppose to be the greatest ship ever built, at her time.

There were attempts to salvage her immediately after she sank, and again in 1664, but not successful. Only a few canons on her were salvage. After that time...people sort of lost the knowledge of where exactly she sank...and its only in the 20th century that her location was found and big operation was done to salvage her.The ship was lifted out of the waters in 1956. We were shown a short documentary of how the ship was salvaged from the waters, and how the King of Sweden was there to 'welcome' her to land. There were also a few skeletons that were found, still trapped in the ship and these were displayed in the museum too. To preserve a ship this size, heaps of chemicals and processes were done to treat the wood of the ship.

In its days, its believed to be a beautiful ship, with many sculptures, and colours. All the sculptures and statues are still on the ship, but they have lost all their colours now, however, scientist were able to figure out what colours the sculptures were using modern scientific methods.

Lets just say the amount of time the ship spent underwater is probably a blessing in disguise. If the ship has been salvage any earlier, it would probably not have been preserved to the standard that it is today. As is, it is the oldest, whole ship in the world today. In fact, there's no existence of any model or drawings of any ship prior to 1670. I would equate this almost as if a whole dinosaur is found, frozen in ice or something with all its organs and everything intact.