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Vasa 1628
2011 · Film · documentary · 110 min
Directed by Anders Wahlgren
In 1628 was one of Europe's largest ship, the Vasa, completed. The summer gathered thousands of curious along Stockholm's quays to see her slip out on her maiden voyage.
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The Vasa museum is amazing. The ship itself sank 15 minutes into it's maiden voyage and had as uninteresting a career as can be imagined, but the museum captures a slice of 17th century Stockholm life in a way that's utterly compelling. It does a fantastic job of telling the story of the people who built the Vasa.
Note: There's a documentary on the Vasa that was playing in a side-room at the museum when I was there, but can be found online. It's worth watching if you have an interest in the ship.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301604/
The quality of the Vasa museum gives me hope that, one day soon, the recently discovered wrecks of the Erebus and Terror might be raised and put in a museum. Similar to the Vasa, these 19th century ships sank in waters with excellent conditions for preservation. Archaeologists believe conditions may actually have been good enough to preserve paper[1]! We can only hope journals kept by the crew may resolve the mystery surrounding the fate of the Franklin expedition. If a ship that sank 15 minutes into its maiden voyage can be the centrepiece of a world-class museum, imagine the museum that could be made out of ships that explored both of the world's poles and met fates that remain shrouded in mystery!
[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terror-wreck-exploration-franklin-expedition-mystery-1.5252023