#vasa museum

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Swedish warship Vasa is the world's best preserved 17th century ship.

#Swedish warship #sweden #swedish #warship #ship #17th century #xvii century #Vasa Museum #Stockholm #intact #333 years #1628

[latvian-spider]

A Trip to Stockholm - The Vasa Museum 34

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From a different side.

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#Vasa Museum #Photo #Spiders Scribbles #Spiders Snapshots #Stockholm Trip Showroom

[hsmagazine254]

Explore Stockholm: A Scandinavian Gem Beckoning with Unforgettable Experiences

Discover the Magic of Stockholm Stockholm, the mesmerizing capital of Sweden, is a city that effortlessly combines rich history with modern elegance. Situated across 14 islands connected by picturesque bridges, it’s often referred to as the “Venice of the North.” This enchanting city boasts a myriad of attractions, shopping districts, culinary delights, and unique experiences that will leave you…

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#Gamla Stan #Nordic cuisine #Scandinavian travel #Stockholm adventures #Stockholm archipelago #Stockholm attractions #Stockholm culture #Stockholm food #Stockholm Royal Palace #Stockholm shopping #Stockholm travel #Swedish meatballs #things to do in Stockholm #unique experiences in Stockholm #Vasa Museum

[johnsgrandtour]

Vasa Museum Stockholm, Sweden

You want to see a boat so big and poorly designed it sunk on it's maiden voyage? Here one is!

So the short version is that the boat was too top heavy. It caused it to roll to one side far enough water flooded into the gun ports and that just brought the ship down to the bottom of the Baltic. Here's the model of it.

The ship was on the floor of the sea sinking into the mud over the last 350 years. Due to how the water in the harbor was brackish,(meaning a mix of fresh and sea water) it preserved the ship abnormally well compared to other wooden ship wrecks.

They sent down divers to tunnel out mud from underneath the boat and fed cables through to pull the ship up and out of the water.

It is a massive boat. I hope the pictures do it justice.

Also here's some 17th century scuba technology: It's a giant bell with a tiny air pocket for the diver. This is how they recovered the cannons from the wreck. It's nightmare fuel in it's purest form.

Anyway, I wasn't in Stockholm for long but was still a really cool city. Onward to Finland!

#backpacking #travel #sweden #Vasa #museum

[starlene]

Forgot to mention it here, but the last time I went to the Vasa Museum, I got a good grade on the guided tour, which turns out is... well, maybe not normal to want, but definitely possible to achieve.

#I was the first person who ever raised their hand when the guide asks if anyone's heard of Vasa's sister ship Äpplet #of course I know my girl Äpplet 🍏💛 #also yeah! this time I was with a friend but I always go on the guided tour; even when I'm visiting the museum alone #I've never had the same guide twice and they all focus on different things on their tours so it's fun #this time I learned a new fact about museum staff having to wear bowling shoes whenever they go onboard the ship #or museum staff and heads of state and Nobel prize winners to be more accurate #those are the three categories of people allowed onboard #pretty cool! #sigh. I miss the Vasa! she just has such an impressive presence #personal.

[mdameninie]

48H à Stockholm, Suède

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#Abba Museum #Activités à Stockholm #Archipel de Stockholm #City Hall Stockholm #Culture à Stockholm #Musée Nobel Stockholm #Musée Vasa Stockholm #Nature à Stockholm #Palais Drottningholm #Promenades à Stockholm #Que faire à Stockholm #Skansen Stockholm #Stureplan Östermalm #Vieux Stockholm (Gamla Stan) #Visiter Stockholm

[museum-of-artifacts]

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship

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#history #museum #artifacts #ancient #art

[crudlynaturephotos]

#harbor #marina #yachts #nordiska museet #vasa boat museum #djurgarden #stockholm #baltic sea #sweden

[stonehengetickets]

Book Your Vasa Museum Tickets 2023

The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden is a popular attraction that showcases the impressive Vasa warship, which sank in 1628 and was salvaged in 1961. Visitors can purchase Vasa Museum tickets online or at the entrance to the museum. The tickets provide access to the exhibits and activities at the museum, including interactive displays, guided tours, and films about the Vasa's history and restoration. With its unique blend of history and technology, the Vasa Museum is a must-visit destination for anyone interested in maritime and naval history.

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#Vasa Museum Tickets

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Newport Ship: Medieval vessel is 'world's largest 3D puzzle'

19 January 2023

By Peter Shuttleworth

BBC News

With almost 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes, it has been called the world's largest 3D puzzle.

Archaeologists can now, after 20 years of painstaking restoration, start to reassemble the wreck of a 15th Century ship found in a south Wales riverbank.

Experts believe the medieval vessel is as significant a find as the Mary Rose - and it is a century older.

"The ship is of global significance and interest," said TV historian Dan Snow.

Specialists have been working on the Newport Ship conservation project since the discovery of almost a third of the former wine- trading vessel and 1,000 medieval artefacts in the banks of the River Usk in 2002.

They have reached an important milestone on Thursday as all of its timbers, which had been preserved for more than 550 years, have now dried out and restored ready to go on display.

The team working on the multi-million pound project are now planning the world's largest attempt to put an archaeological ship back together.

"We have a massive, flat-pack ship that we need to reassemble and there are no instructions," said the project's curator Toby Jones.

"There is going to be a lot of fitting, checking and disassembling and fitting again and again."

"There are archaeological ships on display around the world but nothing from the period of the 15th Century so this is what makes this so significant and special. We have an actual medieval ship that's totally unique."

Tudor king Henry VIII's flagship naval vessel the Mary Rose is perhaps the most famous 16th-century ship on display while the Vasa in Sweden is the 17th-century equivalent.

Historians now say the Newport Ship will be the only 15th-century maritime exhibit on show anywhere in the world.

"The Mary Rose has been top billing since it was found and raised in 1982 as so many people remember it, now the Newport Ship is up on that scale," said Mary Rose's head of conservation David Pearson.

"It can give us so much information as to what life was like in the mid-1400s and we can learn from the late medieval shipbuilding and from items found on board."

About £8m has already been spent preserving and restoring the timbers, which has included freeze-drying the wood at the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth.

The team made their final visit to England's south coast on Thursday to pick up the last batch of about 100 timbers and return them to Newport, ensuring they are all under one roof again for the first time in years.

Then, historians hope to put the wreckage back together and have it on display within the next five years.

"The Newport Ship tells us a bunch of things that the Mary Rose can't," said TV historian Dan Snow.

"The Mary Rose was a Tudor vessel, it feels like an early modern vessel, while the Newport Ship is a trading ship operating at the beginning of a revolution in European shipbuilding.

"It was at a time when those living along the Atlantic seaboard; the Welsh, people from Brittany, northern Spain, Portugal, Devon and Cornwall were starting to go to sea in bigger and stronger ships that would allow them to eventually cross the Atlantic and into the Indian Ocean.

"So the Newport Ship symbolises the birth of this era of European exploration and comes at a very important time in maritime history - just a generation before Christopher Columbus set out across the Atlantic.

"It's the birth of an era that changed the world in every way imaginable. People talk about globalisation and international trade as if it's something recent, this ship shows that way back in our medieval past we had strong links with Europe and we were trading and drinking French wine.

"The Newport ship is one of the most interesting and important shipwrecks found in British waters in a generation.

"It's a truly international find; the wood came from northern Spain and wine from France. It's like a time capsule, a piece of the 15th Century delivered to us here in the 21st Century.

"This is something that's going to be of global significance and interest. Tourists will be coming from all over the world as it's very well preserved."

Why was it in Newport?

It is thought the 30 metre (98ft), 400 tonne, medium-sized boat was having a refit following a voyage from the Iberian Peninsula to Bristol.

This was taking place in a River Usk inlet in 1468 or 1469 when its moorings broke.

Much of the oak planks and iron were stripped before the tide hid the stricken remains, with a third of the vessel succumbing to its muddy grave - lying untouched for more than five centuries.

Economic impact assessments predict the preserved boat could attract up to 150,000 visitors a year - making it one of Wales' most popular tourist attractions - and boost the south Wales economy by £7m a year.

Archaeologists plan to allow the public in to watch them reassemble the remains when a venue big enough is secured to take the boat.

"You cannot build this thing then move it," added Mr Jones.

"You can only build it in its final position, but when it is done, it will be stable and has the potential for being on display in perpetuity."

Newport council, who have led conservation work, will soon start a feasibility study to look at where best to house the ship - with an empty department store a possibility.

"We're keen to find a home which maximises accessibility for everybody as we want to share this great treasure," said Newport council leader Jane Mudd.

"The potential economic benefits are important too - and as more than 1,000 people attend talks on the Newport Ship, it indicates there is huge interest."

#Newport Ship #Newport Ship Conservation Project #Mary Rose #Vasa #Mary Rose Museum #River Usk #Newport

[romanphoto]

Fisherman's boat in the Vasa sea museum #vasa #vaasa #seamuseum #museum #winter #winterphotography #winterwonderland #vasaphotography #manuallenslovers #manuallens #retrolens #helios44 #helios44_love #helios44m #helios44 (at Vaasa, Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CekOBCnobkv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#vasa #vaasa #seamuseum #museum #winter #winterphotography #winterwonderland #vasaphotography #manuallenslovers #manuallens #retrolens #helios44 #helios44_love #helios44m

[latvian-spider]

A Trip to Stockholm - The Vasa Museum 33

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A model of Stockholm in the 17th ventury.

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after a 1619 painting by Jakob Troschel - Portrait of Prince Alexander Charles Vasa

(National Museum, Warsaw)

#1610s #17th century #men #Jakob Troschel

[bogkeep]

here are my pics from the highlight of this weekend: the vasa ship museum!

for those who don't know, vasa is an extremely well preserved warship from the 1600ds - it lay submerged for 333 years, but it had sunk so fast it hadn't even made it to salt water, where the worms would've gotten to it. it is a fantastically ostentatious spectacle, the perfect folly of kings. the reason it sank is because they made the ballast deck too small (because the king wanted two gun decks) and the wind simply. tipped it over. it's SO funny.

bonus:

TREE LAW

#swedenquest #vasa #the masts were not intact but the masts are actually taller than the depths it sank to #imagine the mast just sticking out of the water. peak comedy #50 people died unfortunately :(

[balloons-and-shadows]

* Swedish Culture *

As my exchange semester is coming to an end, I want to share with you what learned about Sweden the last 6 months

Trains drive on the left side of the tracks. On dagen H, everyone switched from driving on the left side to the right side, except for trains. Swedes will look at you funny for bringing that up.

On every product there is a detailed description of how each part of the product should be recycled. We need to do that everywhere.

Fika <33333333

There are no rules for biking here. It is chaos. As a Dutch person I'm very confused

Love to the academic quarter that allows me to be 15 minutes late to every lecture

I think Gävlebocken is a tradition we need to keep. Especially the burning part of it.

Why does everything close so early during the weekends??? What am I supposed to do??

Ikea has my heart. And a lot of my money.

Sun setting at 14.30 makes me want to eat dinner so early already

Also, the cold makes my hair literally so static? Does anyone know what to do about it?

I can never live without kanelbullar again

The amount of lactosefree options there are everywhere! Love it!

Swedes will be sitting outside of a café even when it is -2 degrees. I have the utmost respect for them.

Why do you close everything for the winter? What am I supposed to do now??

The Ikea stereotype is no joke. Everything I own is from Ikea. Everything my friends own is from Ikea.

I miss cheap alcohol :(

Where are there random loose chairs and tables in your trains? Where do they come from? Why are they there?

Affordable housing <333

Little kids in their little snowsuits with their little snowboots are the cutest thing ever

In small towns, you can find like 7 different Japanese restaurants. Nothing else tho.

Kötbullar are so cheap. I love them. I buy them all the time.

I need to know, why are you so obsessed with Thailand as a country?? I need answers.

I'm not made to withstand -15 degrees. No Swede bats an eye.

Also, choirs are a very big thing??? I wish I could sing well.

Did I already mention kanelbullar? <33333

People ask you if you've already been to the ABBA museum. You have not. You are also not planning on going. Still, people ask you.

The Vasa Museum is a very controversial topic.

The red barns you see everywhere are painted with animal blood. You like to point that out to everyone who comes to visit you.

You have not seen the sun in days. You live on vitamin D-supplements and nothing else

Icehockey looks 75% of the time like very aggressive flirting. You know, like the kdramas

You are sitting in the bus quietly. There are people checking the tickets. You have a ticket. Suddenly, there are 4 people standing over you checking your ticket. There's only 5 people in the bus.

16.00 is rush hour. That is very early.

People will not move out of the way for you. Not in the supermarket, not on the train or on the pavement. There have been many times I have had to walk on the road because people will not move for you.

What is lingonberry and why do you put it in everything?

Why do your parties start and end so early?? Why is 4.00 considered "late"?

Just like the Vasa museum, Gamla Uppsala is a very controversial topic.

Tiny rocks are strewn over the street to combat the ice and snow. They get stuck in your shoes. There is a tiny rock collection on the floor of the hallway now.

It is -20 degrees Celsius outside. You see a dude wearing kaki shorts.

Tomten has my heart. He is so tiny.

Student discounts <3333

#I'm finally going homeeee #it was such fun tho #but I'm very happy to see my family again #language learning #swedish #swedish langblr #svenska #swedish vocab #langblr #swedish culture

[ltwilliammowett]

Skeletons of the Vasa - update

In the 1960s, 17-19 skeletons were recovered from the Vasa. I had reported on this. But new research has shown that one of the individuals was not what was first believed. The skeleton that is on display in the museum as G-Gustav has now been renamed Gertrude, because new DNA analyses at the beginning of the year showed that Gustav was not a man but a woman. According to the new genetic analysis, "she was about 25-30 years old when she died, had blue eyes, blond hair and pale skin," told Oscar Nilsson, Live Science in an email, a forensic pathologist based in Sweden. He was the one who gave Gustav his face in 2006 and now had the opportunity to give Gertrude her true appearance. 

Gustav (x)

Nilsson also worked with Anna Silwerulv, a textile expert at the Vasa Museum, to dress the reconstruction in a dark grey jacket and hat, as parts of these garments were found with her remains.

Gertrude (x)

Microscopic analysis revealed that the hat was bright red. "And the original design was striking: a very high hat, reminiscent of the traditional festive clothing of the Swedish and also the Sami peasants," says Nilsson. You could also tell from her vest that she had been a hard-working woman, which made her seem quite harsh even though she was so young, which had also led to Gustav being estimated to be around 45 at the time. Gertrude's presence on the Vasa leads to the conclusion that she had been married to one of the sailors, because only wives were allowed to be present on the maiden voyage.

Gertrude without her hat (x)

The museum reacted immediately and named her skeleton correctly and her new facial reconstruction has been on display since the end of June.

#naval history #face reconstruction #vasa crew members #17th century #swedish #update #age of sail #history