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Competition: Be the first to visit Portsmouth's Mary Rose Museum with your group

Competition: Be the first to visit Portsmouth's Mary Rose Museum with your group

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is offering an exciting competition for one lucky group to be amongst the first visitors to the new Mary Rose Museum, due to open in late 2012.

30 years after the Mary Rose was watched on television by millions being raised from The Solent, the £35m project to build an internationally-renowned museum and complete the conservation of the ship, will see the hull of the ship reunited with many of the 19,000 Tudor artefacts recovered from the seabed, in what promises to be a truly mesmerising experience.

The Mary Rose is the only sixteenth century warship on display anywhere in the world. Launched in 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a favourite of King Henry VIII.

After a long and successful career, she sank during an engagement with a French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of maritime archaeology.

This money can’t buy prize invites groups to be one of the first to see this exciting new museum, the very best in 21st century architecture and construction, which houses the finest collection of 16th century artefacts in the world. For the first time visitors will see the ship with its preserving sprays switched off and will witness the final phase of the hull's conservation through windows into a 'hotbox' as up to 100 tons of water is now removed from the ship's timbers.

New galleries containing some of the thousands of objects recovered will run the length of the ship, corresponding to deck levels so visitors can experience what the decks would have looked like moments before the Mary Rose sank. Six themed galleries will tell the personal stories and working lives of the crew on board.

To enter the competition and also be the first to hear about booking details and prices for the new museum as soon as they are released, visit the website link below (deadline 30 September): http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/groups/maryrose.php

For general group information call 023 9283 9766.

Photo credit: Wilkinson Eyre Architects