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Royal Marines Museum to be converted into luxury hotel
A plan to convert Southsea's former Royal Marines Museum into a 96-bedroom luxury hotel has been hotel will be operated by the Grand Hotel Excelsior International Limited and the Grade II listed building's exterior will be left buildings will be used for a gym, treatment rooms and a swimming pool after Portsmouth City Council approved the project on museum building is about 150 years old but the former museum at Eastney Barracks was closed in 2017 after its "irreversible deterioration".
The site was sold to the hotel company in 2020 for £4.5m, when it was announced the Yomper, the statue of a Royal Marine in the Falklands War, will remain in its place.A new Royal Marines Museum is planned for the Grade II listed Boathouse 6 building at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
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