Girt by stories
Posted on Monday 14 February 2022
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...
Posted on Wednesday 09 February 2022
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 ...
Posted on Wednesday 25 August 2021
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...
Posted on Thursday 17 June 2021
~ EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT ~ The Mosquito Fleet played a significant part in the development of South Australia, growing its economy and its relationships...
Posted on Thursday 24 September 2020
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...
Posted on Tuesday 12 November 2019
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...
Posted on Monday 18 February 2019
**THESE TOURS ARE NOW SOLD OUT** Torrens Island Quarantine Station was built in 1879 to stop passengers bringing diseases such as smallpox into Adelai...
Posted on Tuesday 04 December 2018
Lustre: Pearling & Australia delves into the human story of pearling, weaving together intersecting strands of Aboriginal, Asian and European hist...