Vasa Museum... What's up with that??

Have you ever been to Sweden?  If so, you likely went to their most popular museum, which is the Vasa Museum.  This is an entire museum dedicated to this massive warship that was built in the 1600’s.  It is truly the pride and joy of all of Sweden.  Who cares?  So what?  Why the hell did I buy this stupid book?  Would you please calm down you Dedra, I am getting to my point.

Anyways, I guess I was the only naive one who thought that there must be some amazing history behind this warship which is why they are so obsessed over it.  It must have either sailed around the world or sunk over 100 enemy ships during a war.  Nope and nope.

Instead, the first time it set sail in the water, it went 100 feet and then sunk to the bottom of the ocean for no reason.  I am not making this up.  Google it, if you don’t believe me.  If I was in charge of a country, and something like this happened, I would get rid of every person that had any knowledge of the ship sinking to avoid the truth from ever getting out to my people and the rest of the world.  I certainly would not dedicate an entire museum to show the world how incompetent we are.  Makes no sense.

Moral: Build a museum around an accomplishment, not something you should be ashamed of.