This is a great museum we visited :It features a huge wooden warship build in the 1620 asked for by the king of sweden,who wanted a great ship with two rows of cannons.
At that point, Sweden, with little more than million habitants was at war with Poland (but also with Danemark and some other countries).
It set sail in august, but unfortunaltly there was a light wind and the ship sank a few hundred meters away from its starting point !
When you see the ship, you actually understand why it sank : the water level is very low compared with the height of the ship !
So, it sank and then people forgot where (even though it sank in the Stockholm bay !).
300 years later they took it out of the water by digging tunnels under it (took about 2 years) and put it in a museem for us to see.
First picture shows the tunnel digging and the second one is the actual ship you can see at the museum
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