We went to the Vasa Museum. The Vasa was a warship built in 1628 to be the “biggest and baddest of them all”. It had 64 cannons. The only problem was that it was too heavy. On its first voyage from the harbor, it sank like a lead balloon. It was on the bottom of the harbor until it was found in 1957 and it was raised in 1962. Due to the cold fresh water, the wood had not rotted. The next 20 years was spent spraying the boat with a preservative each day. Today, it sits in a museum in great condition. This is quite a salvage feat. The boat has hundreds of carvings and from analysis, they determined that it was brightly painted in 1628 and have recreated how it would have looked in color on a wall display.