Work begins on Europe’s biggest new maritime museum

An artist’s impression of the new Mary Rose Museum, which is scheduled for completion in 2012. Henry VIII would have been impressed with his new ‘jewellery box’.

Construction has begun on the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth UK, 28 years to the day after the historic vessel was raised from its watery grave in the Solent.

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