Mary Rose to be withdrawn from public view
The Mary Rose warship at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is to be withdrawn from public view on 20 September in order to allow construction work to start on a new £35m museum at the Hampshire attraction.
A special programme of events and activities will be provided during the temporary closure of the historic Tudor warship, which will remain out of view until 2012. The existing Mary Rose museum located elsewhere at the Dockyard will remain open throughout the construction phase. John Lippiett, Mary Rose Trust chief executive, said: "We have devised an imaginative programme of events and interpretations during the closure to give visitors a different, but equally fulfilling, visitor experience.
"We have a number of new, previously unseen exhibits planned that we know the public will be excited to see; we will be hosting the British Library's national travelling exhibition Henry VIII: Man and Monarch at the end of the year, and technology allows us to present the hull in innovative and exciting ways." Plans for the new Mary Rose museum, which has received a £21m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will feature a purpose-built wooden facility to reflect the structure of the original vessel and the adjacent HMS Victory.
The museum - designed by team including architects Wilkinson Eyre - has been designed to imitate a section of the Mary Rose's missing port side, while giving visitors the chance to view artefacts from galleries located on the same level as the ship's main deck. Image: Wilkinson Eyre
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