The enormous Vasa warship, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, was recovered 333 years later from Stockholm Harbour. The museum, with more than a million visitors a year, has six viewing levels, a re-created gun deck you can walk through, and an exhibit on 17th-century life and shipbuilding.

Near the keel, the museum displays the skeletons of ten people who died aboard the ship, alongside reconstructions of how they might have looked in life.