Come and see the Mary Rose before she is temporarily withdrawn from view
Seeing the hull of the famous Tudor warship Mary Rose is a must-do this year before it is withdrawn from view temporarily so a new £35 million museum can be built around her.
The new museum is due to open in 2012 in time for the Olympics and it recently received planning permission. The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) which earmarked £21 million in January 2008 for the new museum. The Mary Rose Trust can now progress to stage two and submit a further, fully developed application to the HLF to secure the full grant.
The ship hall is likely to close from mid-September 2009 as construction commences on the new museum. However, the hull of the Mary Rose will be interpreted in imaginative and visual ways in the current Museum which houses over 1000 original Tudor artefacts retrieved from the hull. Included amongst the plans for interpretation is a new introductory film; time lapse photography; a real-time film link to the ship hall and enhanced displays.
The hull will continue to be sprayed with polyethylene glycol, a water-based wax solution, until 2011 when the hull will be carefully dried within the new museum. She will be displayed fully in 2016.
