Vasamuseet

The Vasa Museum was really interesting. The Vasa was an epic Viking ship that sank in 1628 on it's maiden voyage immediately after setting sail due to insufficient ballast weight. Too many cannons too high above the waterline. Thus, it was very well preserved at the bottom of the harbor for 333 years before the technology was available to raise her. It was finally salvaged, in one piece, with great effort around 1962, and it was the largest wood salvage ever undertaken. It was essentially in one piece, even much of the rigging and part of a sail was intact. It is a huge ship even by today's standards: 69m overall length, carried 450 people. A special building was built just to house it, which itself looks like a futuristic ocean vessel of some kind. It was a bit dark in the building containing the preserved ship, so the photos did not turn out very good.

Based on archeological evidence, this model shows how it was probably painted. I bet the Vasa looked pretty amazing back in 1628.