12 Jun 2019
Who was Captain William Bligh? Perhaps you know him as a ...
25 Jan 2019
Now known as the Rum Rebellion, on 26 January 1808, the soldiers of the New South Wales Corps marched with fixed bayo...
9 Aug 2018
You might be surprised to discover that over 50% of the Museum’s collection is paper, photographic material and bound...
3 Jul 2019
The Blaeu globe is one of the oldest objects in the collection. Recently the conservation team carried out visual and...
26 Feb 2018
Dutch explorers and traders in the 17th century knew to t...
16 Jul 2019
The mythology that surrounds the mutiny on the Bounty has...
16 Oct 2019
Seventy years ago today, the first blast was fired in the town of Adaminaby in southern New South Wales, officially m...
17 Jul 2018
When I visit maritime museums, I am always drawn to the ‘China trade’ paintings of Canton (now Guangzhou), the southe...
10 Nov 2019
Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Wireless radio operator, John Brown, kept a journal of his service during WWI. Brown’s jo...
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