Mary Rose - New Conservation Work

More local news from in and around the Hampshire area from Dibben and Dibben. Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, is set to be removed from public display for three years as a new schedule of conservation work gets under way. The ship's hall at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will close from 20 September to allow work on a new museum. The Heritage Lottery Fund agreed to award £21m to the Mary Rose Trust, which has also raised nearly £10m itself towards total costs of £35m.

The trust aims to complete the work by 2012, in time for the Olympics. The ship will continue to be sprayed with preserving polyethylene glycol, a water-based wax solution, before being carefully dried for full display in 2016. The new building will be a boat-shaped museum clad in timber planks, reflecting the structure of the original ship and Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, which is docked alongside.

John Lippiett, chief executive of the Mary Rose Trust was reported as saying: "We have devised an imaginative programme of events and interpretations during the closure to give visitors a different, but equally fulfilling, visitor experience."

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