The Mary Rose Museum will open to the public on 31 May, at the same dockyard where the Tudor warship was built more than 500 years ago.

The £27m (US$42m, 32m euro) museum was scheduled to open in autumn 2012 but a final fit out of interiors took longer than expected.

In addition to the restored ship, which sank in 1545 in the Battle of Solent, the boat-shaped museum will also showcase 19,000 artefacts associated with it.

Artefacts on display will include wooden eating bowls, leather shoes, musical instruments, longbows, two tonne guns and nit combs.

The opening will mark 30 years since the hull of the Mary Rose was raised in 1982.

The fundraising target was achieved with £23m (US$36m, 27m euro) support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, as well as funds from charitable trusts, corporate and private sponsors, a public appeal and a team of volunteer fundraisers.

Museum ambassador, historian Dan Snow, said: "This tremendous new museum housing together for the first time the hull of the ship and its many treasured artefacts will give us a sense of what life was like on board a Tudor ship like never before, helping to preserve the history of the Mary Rose for generations to come."