Discover stories behind the latest exhibitions, fascinating explorations into maritime science and archaeology, and the surprising details of what happens inside (and outside) a modern working museum.
16 Dec 2019
If you don’t know a pliosaur from a plesiosaur, how do you devise an exhibition about them and other prehistoric marine reptiles? How do you decide what approach to take and what items to include? And how do you find fossils or make replicas? Em Blamey takes us through the creation of Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Ocean Predators.
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13 Dec 2019
Travelling to 38 different locations around Australia by sea and open road, Encounters 2020 will bring to life perspectives from the sea and from the shore.
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12 Dec 2019
With 31 entries across both prizes, our panel of judges had their hands full compiling shortlists and picking the winners from the strong crop of contenders for the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize and the Community Maritime History Prize.
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09 Dec 2019
Marine scientists visited the museum to install 40 settlement plates below the waterline, investigating marine growth and factors that can reduce the establishment of species that aren’t native to Australia.
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09 Dec 2019
We chat to museum and cultural heritage scientist Inger Lundberg about one of her great maritime loves – the four-masted ship Pommern!
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03 Dec 2019
With level 2 water restrictions due to start on 10 December in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra, we have listed 10 different ways you can help save water at home – every drop counts!
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28 Nov 2019
Looking for things to do on a rainy day? Don’t despair, we have some ideas to keep you and your little ones entertained – and most importantly dry!
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27 Nov 2019
Historic Vessels curator David Payne and Indigenous curator Helen Anu recently attended the opening of the museum's Massim Canoe exhibition at the Massim Museum and Cultural Centre.
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17 Nov 2019
This week marks the 150th anniversary of a great historic coincidence – the opening of the Suez Canal and the launch of the British tea clipper Cutty Sark.
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16 Nov 2019
Ten years ago today, the Australian government made a long-awaited national apology to the thousands of former child migrants whose lives were impacted by government-sponsored child migration schemes.
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