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Adam’s Awesome Aquatic-themed Film List

Posted on Friday 08 May 2020

We’re all trying to find something to keep our minds busy during quarantine (including coming up with alliterations for blog post titles…)...

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Sailor with drink

Ship Loads of Beer!

Posted on Friday 06 April 2018

After last year’s gold medal winning beer, publican brewer Jade Flavell and SA Maritime Museum curator Dr Adam Paterson are back, diving deeper ...

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126 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide, 5015

Daily 10am — 5pm (Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day)

What’s happening at @sa_maritime_museum

  • Our doors are open! Come and visit us this long weekend - we can’t wait to see you. ⚓️⛵️
  • Tomorrow’s the day - we’re open! 🎉 Our team have been busy getting everything in ship-shape ready for you to visit. ⚓️ Pre-book for one of our 2-hour sessions at the link in our bio 🔗
  • We look forward to welcoming visitors to the Museum when we reopen from Friday 5 June, just in time for the long weekend. More details to come. @historysa #museums #SouthAustralia
  • In this time of social isolation, our mobile phones have become even more of a necessity. Through them we can call loved ones, FaceTime friends, and share our new hobbies with endless snapshots on social media. #TechnologyMW has changed dramatically. Once a photograph was a precious artefact and posing for it, a significant day. The Port’s largely working class population could only afford a photographic portrait to mark major rites of passage - weddings, graduations, soldiers and sailors going off to war, and sporting victories. The Museum owns 2000 glass plate negatives from the studio of AE Bond in Port Adelaide. Bond set up his studio in 1901 and many local families documented their special days posing against his lush painted canvas backdrop. The only hint we have of who these people are, is a surname scratched on the bottom of the glass plate. Next month we will be providing a link to these digitised images on our website. Stay tuned!

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The South Australian Maritime Museum and History Trust of South Australia acknowledges the First Nations peoples of South Australia, whose connection to country and living cultures began in time immemorial and continues to the present. We affirm our commitment to advancing reconciliation.