Threads of migration
26 Jan 2019
Textiles are an evocative symbol of migration, memory and cultural identity. Our new roof projection, Threads of migration, illuminates the museum’s rooftop with a rich patchwork of immigrant stories.
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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.
Of stars and jellyfish: What people did on long sea voyages
15 Jan 2019
Volunteer researcher Alex Murtazaeva has been looking through the museum’s library and collection for stories of the sometimes strange things people got up to on long sea voyages in the past.
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Wine and poetry
10 Jan 2019
Hailing from a Lebanese region known for its grapes, it is fitting that Michel and Marie Nehme established a thriving vineyard in the heart of the Riverina district of New South Wales, which they lovingly tended by hand while raising a young family.
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Rusticles and wrecks
08 Jan 2019
The conservation team faced a new challenge as part of James Cameron - Challenging the Deep: How to display the decay of metal-hulled ships?
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Lace and the displaced
09 Nov 2018
Today marks 80 years since Kristallnacht (‘Crystal Night’), the night when the Nazis targeted, arrested and murdered Jews across Germany and parts of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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William Bradley’s log of HMS Sirius
08 Nov 2018
An extremely generous donation to the museum has brought an important early colonial record back to Australia.
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Monsters of the deep
31 Oct 2018
Living life as an adult means shedding many childhood ‘truths’. Christmas elves, Easter bunnies and the tooth fairy don’t stand up to hard questioning, so our belief in them falls away.
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Governor Bligh, Loyalists and Usurpers
25 Oct 2018
When then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull asked his parliamentary colleagues to sign a petition over his leadership in August 2018, the connection may have been lost on many, but petitions have some long historical parallels in the Turnbull family, going back to the so-called ‘Usurpation’ of Governor Bligh in 1808.
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Make it at home: miniature garden terrariums
25 Oct 2018
For this month’s make-it-at-home craft activity we’ve taken inspiration from the beautiful landscape photographs by the American photographer Ansel Adams. We’re going to show you how to make your own mini-landscapes in glass jars, called terrariums.
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Searching for junks and sampans
23 Oct 2018
Volunteer researcher Aliza Chin shares her investigations of late 19th-century Chinese vessels built in Australia.
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