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Biennial maritime history prizes: The winners
18 Jan 2021
Announcing the winners of the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize and the Australian Community Maritime History Prize.
Read moreDiscover 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.
18 Jan 2021
Announcing the winners of the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize and the Australian Community Maritime History Prize.
Read more31 Dec 2020
Before we say goodbye to the challenging year that was 2020, we thought we'd take a look back at the blogs you loved the most!
Read more16 Dec 2020
In 2001, Mona Hussain (born 1969) left her family, friends and a successful career in London to begin a new life in Australia with her American-born husband Mark (Dexter) Duncan.
Read more15 Dec 2020
Since the Empathy Museum was founded by Roman Krznaric in 2015, its inaugural project A Mile in my Shoes has travelled to more than 35 locations across the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as New York, Denver, São Paulo, Perth and Melbourne. Now it is Sydney’s turn to host the pop-up storytelling exhibition that allows visitors to step into someone else’s shoes and discover their story.
Read more10 Dec 2020
When Japanese-born Ayumi Sumiyoshi and Italian-born Antonello Abonante celebrated their son’s first birthday this year, they figured it was the perfect opportunity to register their names on the museum’s Welcome Wall and honour their new life in Australia.
Read more17 Nov 2020
This week marks the 151st anniversary of a great historic coincidence – the opening of the Suez Canal and the launch of the British tea clipper Cutty Sark.
Read more16 Nov 2020
Eleven 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.
Read more03 Nov 2020
The sinking of the Greycliffe ferry on 3 November 1927 remains the most significant accident on Sydney Harbour to date. Forty lives were lost when the ferry collided with the Union Steamship Company’s liner Tahiti.
Read more26 Oct 2020
We caught up with Māori artist Tawhai Rickard, one of the 20 leading Aotearoa New Zealand artists featured in the free exhibition HERE: Kupe to Cook.
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