Songwriter and musician Steve Lennox hails from a long line of South Australian lighthouse keepers. In his new album In The Lighter Dark, he threads t...

Once a South Australian lockdown involved a boat trip to an island in the Port estuary… The Torrens Island Quarantine Station was built in 1879 to s...

Nelcebee was launched in Port Adelaide in 1883 and worked the southern coast for 99 years – longer than any other vessel. It holds a history of ...

Are you the next Steven Spielberg? Come visit us at the South Australian Maritime Museum this school holidays and find out! GooRoo Animation workshops...

THEY’RE BACK – and ready to be tracked down! Our displays have yet again been taken over by all sorts of maritime characters – of th...

~ EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT ~ The Mosquito Fleet played a significant part in the development of South Australia, growing its economy and its relationships...

Welcome aboard, explorers! We seem to have misplaced some of our priceless artefacts – and we need your help to find them! There are five object...

Step back in time this December with an in depth look at historic shipwreck, South Australian through the eyes of the maritime archaeologists who kno...

**THESE TOURS ARE NOW SOLD OUT** Torrens Island Quarantine Station was built in 1879 to stop passengers bringing diseases such as smallpox into Adelai...

Lustre: Pearling & Australia delves into the human story of pearling, weaving together intersecting strands of Aboriginal, Asian and European hist...