[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″ el_class=”pull-right”][vc_column_text] ESCToday in collaboration with the City of Stockholm will be bringing you a series of ...

On its maiden voyage in 1628, the most powerful warship in the Baltic, the Vasa, was afloat only minutes before capsizing in front of stunned onlookers in the city's harbor. Hundreds of years later, ...

The Vasa, a 17th century Swedish warship, brought up from the bottom of the sea and uniquely preserved in its entirety. Photo:Karolina Kristensson, Vasamuseet/SMTM A new exhibition at Stockholm's Vasa ...

Few museums get personal, but in Stockholm's Vasa Museum you're introduced to Ivar, 173 centimetres tall, aged around 50, with worn teeth and a healed injury on his skull. He was more than just an ...

STOCKHOLM — We thought the Vasa Museum would be a way to spend an hour or two before lunch. Seriously, how long can you look at a hunk of junk that arguably is the most failed royal warship in history ...

It’s among the best preserved 17th-century ships and the discoveries keep coming. Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, was pulled from the Stockholm harbor in 1961 ...

Here in Stockholm the streets are flooding with tourists, both foreign and domestic. One place that features on a lot of people's lists of must-sees is the Vasa Museum. According to statistics from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Happily telling stories about travel and discovery around the world. It’s funny how cities make long-ago maritime disasters into ...