Vasa Museum

The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, opened in 1990, houses the Swedish warship Vasa, which sank on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was salvaged almost intact in 1961. The most visited museum in Scandinavia, it displays the conserved hull, treated for years with polyethylene glycol, amid exhibits on the ship’s construction, the disaster, and the people aboard. The museum is a benchmark for the conservation and interpretation of a recovered wooden warship and draws over a million visitors a year.