The Vasa museum is amazing. The ship itself sank 15 minutes into it's maiden voyage and had as uninteresting a career as can be imagined, but the museum captur

The Vasa museum is amazing. The ship itself sank 15 minutes into it's maiden voyage and had as uninteresting a career as can be imagined, but the museum captures a slice of 17th century Stockholm life in a way that's utterly compelling. It does a fantastic job of telling the story of the people who built the Vasa. Note: There's a documentary on the Vasa that was playing in a side-room at the museum when I was there, but can be found online. It's worth watching if you have an interest in the ship. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301604/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301604/ The quality of the Vasa museum gives me hope that, one day soon, the recently discovered wrecks of the Erebus and Terror might be raised and put in a museum. Similar to the Vasa, these 19th century ships sank in waters with excellent conditions for preservation. Archaeologists believe conditions may actually have been good enough to preserve paper[1]! We can only hope journals kept by the crew may resolve the mystery surrounding the fate of the Franklin expedition. If a ship that sank 15 minutes into its maiden voyage can be the centrepiece of a world-class museum, imagine the museum that could be made out of ships that explored both of the world's poles and met fates that remain shrouded in mystery! [1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terror-wreck-exploration-franklin-expedition-mystery-1.5252023 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terror-wreck-exploration-fran...