Model of the Mary Rose, from the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. June 2000.
As most of you know, the Mary Rose was a ship in the navy of Henry VIII that sank in 1545 and was raised in 1982. A significant portion of the ship and numerous artifacts have been brought up and are on display in a museum at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth. I enjoyed my visit in 2000 and I can’t wait to go back someday when the new museum is complete!
See The Mary Rose Trust website for more information on the ship and their plans for their new museum.
Some related older threads on the sinking of the Mary Rose:
http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2008/11/15/new-suggestion-for-what-sank-the-mary-rose/
http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2008/07/31/new-ideas-about-why-the-mary-rose-sank/
Lara, you and I may have been there at the same time 🙂 For me, it was May of 2000.
What a wonderful museum and such a magnificent display of the original Mary Rose, albeit she sits in another building. I so thoroughly enjoyed my visit , especially as there were items a person could actually touch inside the musuem. For me, so often places like that are ‘stuffy’, with everything behind glass or partitions. To be able to trace the Tudor Rose on one of Henry’s cannons was a dream come true.
Have yet to read the article, but am interested in seeing what the plans are for the ship itself. Is it out from under the saving solution, for instance?
I think it still has a few more years to go under the preservative solution, but I do know that they plan to showcase the ship in the new museum. I believe one description I read said that you will eventually be able to get up really close to it. But look through their website, since I know they have more details up there.