MUSEUM DEVELOPMENTS THE MARY ROSE UK
The £35m (€41m, US$53.4m) boat-shaped museum designed around King Henry VIII’s flagship – the Mary Rose – opened in May. The opening marked 30 years since the hull of the Mary Rose was raised in 1982. It is located at the same dockyard in
Portsmouth, UK, where the Tudor warship was built more than 500 years ago. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will, the new museum literally functions as a giant ‘air lock’ and time capsule constructed around the hull of the original ship. The building almost takes on the form of a finely crafted wooden ‘jewellery box’, with the hull at its centre and galleries running the length of the ship – each at a level corresponding to a deck. The facility showcases 19,000 associated artefacts, including wooden eating bowls,
Galleries showcasing around 19,000 artefacts run along the length of the ship, representing the deck levels
leather shoes, musical instruments, long- bows, two-tonne guns and nit combs. Faces of some of the crew have also been recreated by forensic science experts using skulls found with the wreck and, as such, the museum has been dedicated to the 500 men and boys who died when the ship sank during an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545. The fundraising target was achieved with £23m (€27m, US$34.9m) support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, as well as funds from charitable trusts, corporate and private sponsors and a public appeal as well as a team of volunteer fundraisers. n
www.maryrose.org
The new museum functions as a giant ‘air lock’ constructed around the original 16th century ship
TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY (TMAG)
TASMANIA
This spring, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) reopened its doors in Hobart following a AUS$30m (£17.9m, €21m, US$27.2m) redevelopment project. The new facility encompasses more than twice TMAG’s previous display space. There is also a dedicated facility for travelling exhibi- tions in order to enable the art gallery to host international exhibitions of a standard never before seen on the island.
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The visitor entrance highlights historic Watergate
An expanded public and education pro- gramme will also enable TMAG to showcase more of its state collection. Architectural firm Francis-Jones Morehen
Thorp focused on designing a contemporary structure sympathetic to the heritage and
character of the site and waterfront setting. The new visitor entrance highlights the his- toric Watergate area as a central feature of the courtyard space. It is surrounded by herit- age buildings on one side and a new building housing a cafe and the programme-delivery facility on the other aspect. TMAG’s treasured heritage buildings, including the Bond Store and Commissariat Store, are preserved beneath an enclosed courtyard, where visitors can converge. In ad- dition, there is a vibrant outdoor civic space where archaeological evidence of the island’s history, previously hidden beneath the fringes of TMAG’s historic site, are now showcased. n
www.tmag.tas.gov.au
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