Girt by stories
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...
Posted on Friday 30 June 2017
The Port Adelaide Nautical Museum collection is the oldest maritime collection in Australia. Begun in 1872 as the general museum of the Port Adelaide ...
Posted on Thursday 29 June 2017
More than 850 shipwrecks line South Australia’s coast. They hold stories of disaster, heroism, failure and survival. Whether caused by bad weather, ...
Posted on Wednesday 28 June 2017
The Lighthouse is Port Adelaide’s icon. It stands at the end of Commercial Road marking the place where the city meets the Port River. First lit in ...
Posted on Tuesday 27 June 2017
Nine ships left Britain for the newly created Province of South Australia in 1836. Estimates of the precise number of intending settlers vary but the ...