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V A S A M U S E E T
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The Vasa Museum is one of
Scandinavia ' s most visited museums . It
is here that you will find in all its glory ,
the unique and well preserved warship
Vasa from 1628 , embellished with
hundreds of wooden sculptures . Around
1 . 5 million visitors every year enjoy the
exhibitions in the museum , which
describe the warship Vasa ' s history and
life at the time ; how , after 333 years at
the bottom of Stockholm bay , the ship
was rediscovered and salvaged ; and the
research which is now underway to
preserve Vasa . The Vasa Museum lies in
the royal parkland , Djurgården , in
Stockholm .
The Vasa Museum is a part of the
Swedish National Maritime and
Transport Museums , together with the
Maritime Museum in Stockholm , the
Naval Museum in Karlskrona and the
Railway Museum in Gävle . The agency ' s
mission is to preserve and develop the
maritime and transport history cultural
heritage and to increase people ' s
knowledge about it . The government
decides which direction our work
should take , and we receive our
instructions and directives from the
Ministry of Culture .