Australian National Maritime Museum launches Encounters 2020 – perspectives from ship and the shore
August 21, 2019
Program to mark 250 years since Cook’s 1770 voyage to the Pacific
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Australian National Maritime Museum installs Australia's largest lightweight solar panel roof
August 14, 2019
Wednesday August 14, The Australian National Maritime Museum announced today, in-conjunction with solar panel manufacture SunMan and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), that it has installed Australia’s largest lightweight solar panel roof on its Wharf 7, Heritage Centre in Darling Harbour.
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State of our Oceans with Sylvia Earle
August 09, 2019
International Ocean Conservation Superstar Dr Sylvia Earle to visit Australia for Science Week at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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Bligh Exhibition Launches
July 24, 2019
Australian National Maritime Museum opens ground-breaking new exhibition.
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Australian National Maritime Museum’s Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country wins at Museums + Heritage Awards
May 22, 2019
The Australian National Maritime Museum’s Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country has won International Project of the Year with a budget of less than £1m at the Museums + Heritage Awards in London overnight – one of the most prestigious international museum awards in the world.
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WWII shipwreck discovered
April 23, 2019
Australian freighter SS Iron Crown found after being sunk by submarine in 1942.
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Australian Sailing Hall of Fame 2019 Nominations Now Open
April 10, 2019
Australian Sailing and the Australian National Maritime Museum are excited to announce that nominations have opened today for the prestigious Australian Sailing Hall of Fame.
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Australian National Maritime Museum Launches Reconciliation Action Plan
March 06, 2019
Wednesday 6 March: The Australian National Maritime Museum and Reconciliation Australia have today launched the museum’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), formalising their ongoing commitment to promoting and contributing to reconciliation.
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Sydney’s first Seabins splash down!
February 19, 2019
Today, the first two full-time Seabins have splashed down in Sydney – one in Darling Harbour and one in the Parramatta River. This comes less than a year after the Seabin Project first demoed its ingenious floating rubbish bins in Australian waters. To date, the Australian-invented Seabin has over 435 Seabins collecting waterway pollutants in ports, marinas and yacht clubs around the world but no permanent ones in Australia until now.
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Pride Flies High
February 13, 2019
For the first time in its 28 year history, the Australian National Maritime Museum will proudly raise a rainbow flag above at its Darling Harbour location to recognise and celebrate its commitment to telling the “hidden histories” of LGBTQI people at sea, as well as to the Museum’s diverse staff and guests.
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