Attractions industry news
18 Feb 2013
Final funding secured for Mary Rose Museum
Public donations of £35,000 raised in just over a week mark the end of a £35m appeal to fund a new home for Tudor warship the Mary Rose in Portsmouth.
The museum was scheduled to open in autumn 2012 but a final fit out of interiors was to take longer than expected, and the attraction is now expected to open late spring.
In addition to the restored ship, the boat-shaped museum will also showcase 19,000 artefacts associated with it.
The public appeal called for donations from as little as £1 through the Mary Rose JustGiving page, with the remainder of the fundraising target achieved with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, charitable trusts, corporate and private sponsors and a team of volunteer fundraisers.
Ambassador for the museum, historian Dan Snow said: "The Tudor warship has long been described as this country's Pompeii, painting the finest picture of sixteenth century life."
"This tremendous new museum housing together for the first time the hull of the ship and its many treasured artefacts will give us a sense of what life was like aboard a Tudor ship like never before, helping to preserve the history of the Mary Rose for generations to come."
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