The ship that’s portrayed outside the Swedish restaurant at 5236 ... Martina Siegrist Larsson says, “The painting does not look exactly like Vasa, but it has some Vasa-like features, for ...

It’s among the best preserved 17th-century ships and the discoveries keep coming. Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank ... ‘He Was Hungry’: A Korean Art Student Untaped Maurizio Cattelan ...

The museum houses the wreckage of the country's best known ship ... It [the Vasa] is breathtaking and it's a strong experience to see it". READ ALSO: Seven ways to beat wet weather in Sweden The ...

The remains of the ship were found in Vaxholm ... King Gustav II Adolf commissioned both vessels in 1625 to fortify Sweden’s Baltic position. Vasa was the first one built, designed with two ...

“Using both science and art in a facial reconstruction ... Museums At the time it set sail, the Vasa was Sweden’s newest, most powerful ship. With its load of 10 sails, 64 cannons and 120 ...

It was salvaged in 1961 and is currently on display at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, one of Sweden's most popular tourist spots. According to the museum, the designer of both ships, Hein Jakobsson ...

When the human remains found on board the Swedish ... Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. We cannot know who most of them were, only one person is named in the written sources. When the ship ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have ... Unlike the Vasa, whose salvaged wreck is now a Stockholm museum, the wreck of the Äpplet had long eluded marine archaeologists. Both ships were created by ...

In August 1628, a hulking warship called the Vasa (named for Sweden’s royal family) began its highly anticipated maiden voyage from Stockholm. To say it didn’t go well would be the ...

On August 10, 1628, Vasa, the would-be jewel of Sweden’s navy sank only minutes after departing Stockholm. This tragedy – that claimed the lives of 30 of those on board – launched an inquest probing ...

Sweden is embarking on a colossal four-year project to safeguard a nearly 400-year-old warship that is the centrepiece of its famous Vasa Museum. The ship, one of Stockholm’s main tourist ...