Our waterways connect people, places and time. Something dropped into a drain, river or ocean can be found somewhere completely different a long time later.

The museum has a bottle on display which was dropped off of a boat sailing to Western Australia and found 83 years later on a beach in South Australia! Inside was a fragile note that was written in the 1930s.

Visit the SA Maritime Museum during the October school holidays to learn about our waterways, investigate the exhibits and be creative with our own message-in-a-bottle activity.