Mary Rose Museum opens today

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Anyone else remember them raising the ship, I think they showed it on Blue Peter?

Great pictures on BBC website.

Yes, I remember. It sounds like the only museum not stuffed by strikers today.

we were at the historick dockyard a week ago. Managed to miss this and the Ark royal. Doh

I remember where I was when they raised it. I was in Portsmouth 3 years ago I had no idea it would take this long to open the Museum.

I must have been the 80s when it was raised? BBC story says it was discovered in 71, I'm too young to remember that!

It was 1982.

I was 3 then, how do I remember that? Was it on Blue Peter? I must have been an odd child

I remember a fascinating documentary a few years ago about doctors studying the skeletons they found, and establishing which were archers (how the shoulder had developed) and where the crew came from (analysis of minerals in the teeth?).

They discovered a lot were not in Britain in childhood, so perhaps not British at all, and wondered if there was a language barrier that meant the crew were unable to work toghether effectively or in an emergency follow orders given in English.

I was on the beach at Southsea the day it was raised, you could see it on its special cradle being lifted on to the barge, we went down after school. We've got a current ticket for the Historic Dockyard, I'm looking forward to seeing it in its new home.

My mum used to work with one of the people who discovered the Mary Rose. I was only a child but I remember the excitement.

Great to see Robert Hardy being interviewed on the news about the new museum. He's an expert in long bows (as well as acting in All Creatures Great and Small).

Huh, there always used to be a Mary Rose museum, I went there on a school trip!

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that although I saw it that day in 1982 and have lived within half an hours drive of Portsmouth for 20 out of the intervening 30 years I only got round to going to see it again about 5 years ago. This new museum looks like a huge improvement though, and it will be even better once the drying out is finished in 4 years.

the piece of trivia that amazed me is that they have been spraying it with water and preservative for thirty years, and only turned off the sprays last month! Thirty YEARS!

website jammed solid but will have a look when the dust clears.