3. The Vasa Museum
Was it a curse? Polish sabotage? Drunken sailors? Or poor design?
Gossip was rife when the new ship Vasa, laden with two gun decks at the King’s insistence, sunk. It went down within sight of watching Stockholm crowds in January 1628 on its maiden voyage.
Then in 1961, the Vasa was raised from its watery grave, despite the corrosion of 6,000 bolts, restored and eventually displayed in the Vasa Museum which is appropriately topped by three masts. A unique maritime time capsule.
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