Mary Rose Museum
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
Portsmouth institution housing the recovered Tudor warship.
The Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard houses the surviving hull of Henry VIII’s warship Mary Rose, sunk in 1545 and raised in 1982, together with tens of thousands of artifacts that document Tudor naval and daily life. After decades of spraying with polyethylene glycol and controlled drying to stabilize the waterlogged timber, the conserved hull is displayed in a purpose-built museum opened in 2013. It is one of the foremost examples of large-scale ship conservation and underwater archaeological recovery.