Inside the Vasa Museum

how the vasa survived 3 centuries underwater 🤯 📍 Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 🏴‍☠️ The Vasa is the world’s ONLY preserved 17th century warship 💦 It sank in the “shallow” harbor of the Baltic Sea, where it was protected from storms & strong currents 🌕 Because the ship was newly built & sank in the cold, dark & almost oxygen-free water with low salt content, the wood was able to stay quite well preserved, besides the iron fastenings 🧊 To retrieve the ship, people pondered filling it

The Vasa is the world’s only preserved 17th-century warship, raised after 333 years on the seafloor. Built to be the pride of Sweden’s navy, it sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and now stands in Stockholm’s Vasa Museum, 98% original and frozen in time. | Museum of Artifacts