Stockholm’s most prized heirloom is the 69-metre-long, 380-year-old warship Vasa, which sank just 20 minutes into her maiden voyage in 1628. Salvaged from the waters in 1961, she was ceremoniously installed in her stunning, custom-designed Vasamuseet (Vasa museum) in 2000. Several popular myths grew up around the doomed fate of the mighty warship, but the majority of these were debunked when ‘The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628’ was published in 2007, which provides her ‘true history’ – one full of historical interest, and still a little intrigue.