Vrak - Museum of Wrecks
Waterfront hangar of preserved Baltic Sea shipwrecks, kept whole for centuries by cold, dark water.
This guide to Vrak, the Museum of Wrecks in Stockholm, follows the diver Richard Lundgren, who at age eight walked the deck of the salvaged warship Vasa and decided he would one day find something even bigger: the Mars, flagship of King Erik XIV, lost off Oland in 1564 after a two-day battle against a combined Danish and German fleet. It traces the legends that grew around her sinking, the eight hundred to nine hundred men who went down with her, and the decades Lundgren spent building Scandinavia's first technical diving team while circling back to his real target. Stand close to the hangar's cold air here; it is drawn from the same Baltic water outside.
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