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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
Torrens Island Quarantine Station was built in 1879 to stop passengers bringing diseases such as smallpox into Adelaide. Today, the site is remarkably...
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...
Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2018
Join us for a delicious night of KIS gin cocktails and curvy models in corsets as we unravel the fascinating history of getting ‘waisted’. From El...
Posted on Thursday 21 June 2018
An impressive four metre long whale sculpture designed and created by Ngarrindjeri elder, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow and her family has been installed at t...
Posted on Friday 06 April 2018
A camouflaged radar station in World War II, a rich sailing heritage, and an isolated farm on a remote island… The remarkable secrets of Wedge I...
After last year’s gold medal winning beer, publican brewer Jade Flavell and SA Maritime Museum curator Dr Adam Paterson are back, diving deeper ...
Who arrived in South Australia in 1836? Identification of these individuals is more difficult than you might assume. Join David Wilson, Bob Sexton and...
Posted on Friday 11 August 2017
South Australia’s ketches linked town and country from the nineteenth century to the 1970s. They carried farm products, grain and minerals to the ci...