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Conveuropean +15 years living in europe

Vasamuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm Sweden

Last weekend I was lucky enough to visit Stockholm, one of the Scandinavian cities that was on my "I definitively want to go there list." The week before, I asked F., a Swedish colleague of mine, what he would recommend visiting, and the first thing he told me about was the Vasa Museum, a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628 that sank on her first trip very close to the Stockholm harbor... That was an interesting story, but the amazing second part, more than 300 years later, is that they were able to recover the ship, which was kept in very good condition because of the composition of the water around that area. So you get this incredible experience to visit this gigantic ship almost as it was in the 17th century. I would recommend a visit to Stockholm just to see it. In this picture, you can see the ship in the background with a small sailor doll in the exhibition (using the wonders of perspective, it looks like a real one!).