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Skipper Captain John Illingworth (centre standing in cap) with the crew of Rani, the winner of the first Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, 1.45am, 2 January 1946. ANMM Collection 00048228_003, Gift from Alison Richmond

75 years of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

18 Dec 2019

Our latest exhibition, Challenging, thrilling, racing: Sydney to Hobart 75 years, is a dramatic visual essay about the history of this prestigious race.

Part of a 13-metre-long cast of an Elasmosaur

MOOCs, makers and monsters: Bringing prehistoric marine reptiles to life

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.

Inside an art gallery showing people and paintings

Top 12 museums in the world

14 Dec 2019

With around 55,000 museums scattered all over the world, it can be hard trying to decide which ones should be at the top of your bucket list.

Encounters around Australia: Investigating our history

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.

Photograph showing archaeological remains underwater

Rhode Island revisited: The search for Cook's Endeavour continues

13 Dec 2019

Investigations continue into the 18th-century shipwreck that lies on the muddy sea-floor of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Is it HMB Endeavour? Dr James Hunter, Kieran Hosty and Irini Malliaros provide key insights from the latest fieldwork.

Announcing the winners: 2017 biennial maritime history prizes

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.

Four individuals lowering 20 tiles attached to a board into the water for a scientific experiment

Science at work: Settlement plates and space invaders

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.

Inger Lundberg standing in a museum store

From Aland to Australia: Inger Lundberg on the historic ship Pommern

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!

10 ways to save water at home

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!