As part of the brilliant Kids in Museums takeover day in November 2018, a group of Year 8s selected their seven favourite objects from the Mary Rose Museum collection; here’s what they chose

“We chose these objects from the Mary Rose Museum because they explain ‘hidden stories’ from the collection and help us to find out about people from the past. It has been amazing to come face to face with the past.”

Gallon Tankard

This wooden tankard held a gallon of beer – probably for a Gun Team – and is inscribed on the top in Latin: “If God be for us who can be against us?” The tankard has some graffiti of a cannon with two legs poking out from the back. We were intrigued that the Tudors had a sense of humour too! We imagined all the stories that could come from this object, from the woodcutter and carpenter to the divers and curators who look after the object today.

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Surgeon’s Ceramic Containers

These ceramic jars held the remains of expensive imported medicines, including frankincense used by the Surgeon on the Mary Rose. We discovered that, unlike other members of the crew, there was little of a personal nature found amongst the Surgeon’s equipment.

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