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The Sunken Secrets/Archaeology Discovery Centre exhibition closed permanently in 2019, Artefacts on display have been relocated to the Maritime trusts Shipwrecks exhibition at Arreton barns on the Isle of Wight. The Building that housed the exhibition at Fort Victoria has been converted into a
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in 1999. The Trust refurbished the museum which was re-opened in 2006 as the Underwater Archaeology Centre. In 2013 it was renamed Sunken Secrets. In 2017 the ownership of the centre passed into local hands.
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and work began excavating that site as well. In 1990 the Isle of Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology was founded and began operating a museum at
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that exists today. It focuses on the Trust's excavations at Bouldnor Cliff and includes artefacts recovered from the sea bed.
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funded a team to research and excavate the site. In 1984 another wreck was discovered immediately offshore of
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The museum was run by archaeologists based on the Isle of Wight. It was housed in five of the fort's former
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The Making of the Wight - An illustrated history of the Isle of Wight
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Discovering an Island - The roadside heritage of the Isle of Wight
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casemates
Fort Victoria
Archaeology Discover Centre is located in Isle of Wight
Fort Victoria
Isle of Wight
England
Coordinates
50°42′24″N 1°31′16″W / 50.706667°N 1.521111°W / 50.706667; -1.521111
Archaeology
Yarmouth
Sunken Secrets
museum
Fort Victoria
Isle of Wight
England
casemates
shipwrecks
Solent
HMS Pomone
HMS Invincible
Yarmouth Roads Wreck
Bouldnor Cliff
HMS Pomone
The Needles
Isle of Wight Council
Yarmouth
Fort Victoria
Royal Naval Museum
Bembridge Maritime Museum

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