Gunport Hatch
Decorated Gunport with Lion
Stern Sculptures of the Vasa
Stern of the Vasa Warship
Vasa’s Stern Carvings
Gun Deck of the Vasa
Upper Deck of Vasa
Ornate Panel from the Vasa Warship
Roman Soldier Figurehead on Vasa
Reclining Figures on the Vasa Warship
Crowned Lions and Royal Bust
David with Harp and Moorish Warrior
Grotesques and Soldiers on the Vasa
Royal Coat of Arms on the Vasa
Stern Ornament with Cherubs
Grotesque Carvings Beneath the Stern
Figurehead Supports from the Vasa
Model of the Vasa
The Vasa Warship

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The Vasa Museum is built around the Vasa, a royal warship built in 1626–28 to project King Gustavus Adolphus’s Baltic power, only to capsize and sink minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628. Raised in 1961 from Stockholm’s harbor mud, the ship survives with rare completeness, from its immense hull to its dense carved imagery of authority, turning a famous failure into an unmatched record of 17th c. engineering, propaganda, and the lives carried aboard.