Construction work on the new Mary Rose Museum

Work has begun on the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, 28 years after a television audience of 60 million witnessed the vessel being retrieved from the depths of the Solent. The construction of the £35 million project will secure the future of King Henry VIII’s flagship which sank in 1545, and is set to be the most ambitious heritage construction project in Europe this decade.

Scheduled to open in autumn 2012, fundraising for the museum is ongoing. The Mary Rose Trust hopes to secure a further £4 million. Upon completion the Mary Rose will be reunited with many of the 19,000 artefacts recovered from the vessel, providing visitors with an unparalleled insight into Tudor life at sea.