MARY ROSE MUSEUM.
An exciting £35 million project to build a new museum for the Tudor warship Mary Rose in Portsmouth’s Historic
Dockyard was given planning permission by Portsmouth City Council on the 13th February 2009.
The museum, designed by a team comprising Wilkinson Eyre Architects (architect), Pringle Brandon
(interior architect) and Land Design Studio (exhibition design and interpretation), in collaboration with
Gifford (structural and M&E engineer), will reunite the ship’s preserved hull with many thousands of
unseen artefacts for the first time in 500 years.
The project will be part funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) who will contribute £21 million towards the
project, but this is dependent upon the Mary Rose Trust matching this sum with a further £14 million raised from charitable
donantions.
So far, May 2009, the trustees have been able to raise £9.2 million, from individual and corporate sponsorship.
The hull of the Mary Rose will be withdrawn from public view during construction of the new museum.
It will continue to be interpreted in imaginative ways in the existing museum, which will
remain open throughout.
She will continue to be sprayed with polyethylene glycol, a water-based wax solution, until 2011. The hull
will be carefully dried within the new museum until she can be displayed fully in 2016.
The exciting design of the new museum, has been developed to maintain as extensive visitor access as possible, balancing the
specific conservation conditions necessary to the ship’s preservation and once completed would be a world-class visitor attraction.
The Mary Rose Trust needs your help to match the generous Lottery funding because it receives no Government grants and therefore relies on
voluntary donations.
To find out how you can support the Mary Rose appeal and see the benefits of Gift Aid, please visit the
Mary Rose Trust
support page by following this link.
Thank you for your support.
