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Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career. #Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 24

For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice

Come and find out why this summer...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1h

Feels like this is going to become one of those rants our dog has about Halloween 'skeletons' with ossified soft parts...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Can't believe we have to clarify that we're just saying that they existed at the same time, not that we're accusing them...

A suspicious-looking dodo in front of the Mary Rose sinking.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 7h

Are you suggesting they were wiped out in retaliation?

two men are sitting in a car and one of them is saying that does n't sound right

ALT: two men are sitting in a car and one of them is saying that does n't sound right

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly not, the dodo isn't mentioned by Europeans until the Dutch arrived in Mauritius in 1598.

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Dodos were thriving when the Mary Rose sank.

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You could try here - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on conserving a 500-year-old wooden warship.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

If you missed this you can listen to it now on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Find out more about feeding the crew of the Mary Rose - maryrose.org/meet-the-cre...

The Cook - The Mary Rose

Who was the Mary Rose's cook, and what food and drink did the crew of the Mary Rose have?

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Both galley ovens can be seen in the museum, one as it was found on the seabed, the other reconstructed based on historical images and study of the originals. We even built a replica one that we sometimes fire up for cookery demonstrations!

A galley oven, mostly a pile of bricks and a large copper-allow cauldron on the top.

A galley oven, a brick-built structure with a lead llined copper cauldron in the top.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

In 1982, divers discovered a large brick structure in the hold, which turned out to be one of the two galley ovens.

As visibility on the seabed wasn't great, the only way to get a photo of the whole structure was to take a photomosaic, as seen here.

A series of black and white photographs of a brick structure, with a line drawing of the galley.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow, 9:00am on BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific: Eleanor Schofield on conserving the Mary Rose

In a special edition, recorded in front of an audience at the museum, Professor Jim Al-Khalili discovers how cutting-edge science is keeping history afloat.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose

Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on conserving a 500-year-old wooden warship.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

In this month's collections blog, we take a look at the coinage found on the Mary Rose, how it survived on the seabed, and how Henry VIII tried to boost the economy through sneaky means...

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Money, money, money: It’s a rich man’s ship - The Mary Rose

The coinage on board the ship once again shows how the Mary Rose is a snapshot of the Tudor period and holds significant evidence for all aspects of Tudor life.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Is there something going on between you two?

a man is wearing ear buds and says how have i never noticed

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Money, money, money: It’s a rich man’s ship - The Mary Rose

The coinage on board the ship once again shows how the Mary Rose is a snapshot of the Tudor period and holds significant evidence for all aspects of Tudor life.

maryrose.org

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #WorldAnimalDay!

There were a few animals on the Mary Rose, some invited, others no so much...

maryrose.org/blog/the-ani...

The skeleton of the Mary Rose's dog, Hatch.

A frosted acrylic outline of a rat, with four bones resting on itl, including a pelvis.

a blurry microscope image of a flea, recovered from a piece of sackcloth recovered from the Mary Rose.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDay, 4th October 1983, the Mary Rose went on display for the first time.

Back then the ship was still being sprayed with water, so many of our visitors remember getting wet - were you one of them? Let us know!

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Do let us know if you're getting tired of pictures of our frankly magnificent Tudor ship...

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The hull of the Mary Rose, viewed at an angle from the stern.

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Discover navigation in 16th century England through the wayfinding items and tools recovered from the Mary Rose in our talk and tour on Saturday 18th October!

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A closeup of a Tudor ship's gimballed compass, with a set of brass dividers sitting on the box it's mounted in.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

But contrary to poular belief, it wasn't their only hit - the follow up Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) did just as well as Pump Up The Jam in the UK charts.

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Technotronic - Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 7d

#OnThisDay, 1989, Technotronic's hit single "Pump Up the Jam" reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Luckily, the bilge pump on the Mary Rose had an inspection hatch, so you could see what was jamming it and clear it out.

No, hang on, that's "Jam up the pump"...

A long cylindrical wooden pole, with a hollow end, lying on the floor next to the Mary Rose

A section of the wooden cylinder, with a rectangular hole in it

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 8d

Some people compare the smell of the pitch on the rope in our handling area to Marmite, in that some like it and some hate it.

Also, its dark brown and sticky - not bad for something that's spent 437 years under the sea!

A short section of hemp anchor cable, in front of the wreck of the Mary Rose

A closeup of the rope, showing the fibres of the anchor cable and the pitch coating it, which has worn off on most of the more exposed surface.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 9d

That's also why we have half a ship - the half that exists was buried in the mud, the rest was exposed to shipworm and gribble, as well as tidal action and Victorian salvage operators...

A microscope photo of a gribble, or Limnoria, a woodlouse-like sea creature with a hunger for wood

A ship worm, or Teredo - despite the name, it's actually a mollusc, which makes deep holes in wood and lives in them

A piece of MAry Rose Wood showing holes from Teredo.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Lots of people asking how it survived, it's really rather simple.

When the ship sank, it was buried in anoxic mud, so there were no bioorganisms there to eat any of the organic matter. This is why we have so much leather too!

A leather pouch, with traces of the original embroidery

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 9d

It's hard to believe that this oak leaf, found on the wreck of the Mary Rose, fell from a tree during the reign of Henry VIII.

Wonder if the tree it fell from ended up on a ship too?

An 480+ year old oak leaf, found on the Mary Rose.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Birthday to Margaret Rule, born #OnThisDay, 27th September 1928

Margaret was the lead archaeologist on the Mary Rose project from 1967, and led the operation that saw the ship returned to the surface in 1982.

She died in 2015.

maryrose.org/news/margare...

Margaret Rule, an older woman, standing in front of the recently raised Mary Rose in its yellow cradle.

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