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South Australian Maritime Museum
Past Events and Exhibitions
Events
Family Pick
Port Dock Railway Line – Community Open Day
24 August 2024
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H.M.S. Pinafore
16 - 17 August 2024
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The marine science century: 100 voyages of the nation’s marine research ship
04 August 2024
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Family Pick
School Holidays: Investigator LEGO® Trail
29 June - 21 July 2024
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Port Adelaide Lighthouse Tours
24 May 2024
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Special Event
Mapping Home: South Australia and beyond
24 May 2024
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Special Event
Lighthouse Lore & Portside Pour: A journey through Port Adelaide’s past
11 - 17 May 2024
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Pamela and The Duchess: Life on the last windjammers
08 March 2023 - 15 May 2024
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Special Event
Over the Ocean Blue – with the Adelaide Male Voice Choir
04 May 2024
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Family Pick
School Holidays: LEGO® Trail Creature Quest
29 March - 28 April 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: Curators Guided Tour
07 - 16 March 2024
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Special Event
Matthew Flinders turns 250!
16 March 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: Pirates of Penzance
15 March 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: VOYAGE: Folk Traditions Anew
10 March 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: HOMER’S ODYSSEY – A mini musical
24 February - 03 March 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: Rhapsody in Chicago Blues
25 February 2024
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Adelaide Fringe: A Taste of Spain
18 February 2024
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Family Pick
Lego Trail: Follow the stars
16 December 2023 - 28 January 2024
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Family Pick
The Big Book of Pirates: HeapsGood Productions
06 - 09 January 2024
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Salty Sessions: Shanty!
02 December 2023
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Special Event
From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea
18 November 2023
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Red Leviathan: Ryan Tucker Jones on the secret history of Soviet whaling
05 November 2023
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Family Pick
School Holidays: LEGO® Trail Pirate Edition
16 September - 15 October 2023
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Family Pick
School Holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – LEGO® Animation
06 - 07 October 2023
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Family Pick
School holidays: Around the World LEGO® Trail
24 June - 23 July 2023
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Special Event
Celtic Waters: Duo Celtica & Telenn Tri
23 July 2023
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Family Pick
School holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – Whiteboard Animation
20 - 22 July 2023
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Special Event
Sailors, Settlers and their Songs
27 May 2023
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Family Pick
Night at the Museum
20 May 2023
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Special Event
Creative Histories: Using Wonder to Disrupt and Heal the Past
11 May 2023
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Family Pick
School holidays: Creature Quest LEGO® Trail
07 - 30 April 2023
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Family Pick
School holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – LEGO® Animation
27 - 29 April 2023
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School holidays: Sea Creature Origami
17 - 26 April 2023
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Follow The Stars – LEGO® Trail
17 December 2022 - 29 January 2023
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Family Pick
GooRoo Animation: Claymation
02 - 08 January 2023
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Community Group Tours
06 September 2021 - 31 December 2022
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Salty Sessions: Inked
25 November 2022
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Family Pick
School Holidays – LEGO Trail: Pirate Edition
01 - 16 October 2022
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School Holidays: GooRoo Animation
13 - 16 October 2022
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Ten Pound Poms
08 - 10 September 2022
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Fathers Day
04 September 2022
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Family Pick
Dive Deep, Dream Big: Book Week Story Time at the Museum
20 - 21 August 2022
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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Ship N Bricks: Seafarers Edition
09 - 24 July 2022
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Illuminating Songwriters Who Fly Under the Radar
23 July 2022
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School Holidays: Origami Art
09 - 20 July 2022
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Special Event
Songs from the Edge of World
08 July 2022
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Special Event
TALK: Museums and the Virtual World
09 June 2022
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Special Event
South Australia’s History Festival – Finding Flinders: The Man behind the Map
26 May 2022
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Special Event
| SOLD OUT | South Australia’s History Festival – Lockdown: How we quarantined before COVID
06 - 15 May 2022
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Special Event
| SOLD OUT | South Australia’s History Festival – Tall Ships and Sailor Boys
14 May 2022
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Special Event
School Holidays: GooRoo Animation
27 April - 01 May 2022
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Family Pick
School Holidays: Ship N Bricks
11 December 2021 - 27 January 2022
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Family Pick
School Holidays: GooRoo Animation Claymation
21 - 25 January 2022
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Special Event
Autism Friendly Sensory Sessions
23 - 24 October 2021
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Family Pick
School Holidays: Ship n Bricks
25 September - 10 October 2021
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Family Pick
School Holidays: GooRoo Animation
25 - 28 September 2021
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Special Event
Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours – September 2021
17 - 19 September 2021
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Special Event
EXTENDED: Ship N’ Bricks!
31 July - 01 August 2021
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Special Event
NAIDOC Week – Kaurna Cultural Walking Tour of Port Adelaide
11 July 2021
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Special Event
Labour of Love Paste Up walk
01 - 31 May 2021
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Drowning, Not Waving…
16 - 30 May 2021
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Family Pick
Ted’s Big Day Out
14 December 2020 - 22 January 2021
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Family Pick
Cat’s Out of the Bag! – School Holidays
14 December 2020 - 22 January 2021
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Family Pick
School Holiday Scavenger Hunt
28 September - 09 October 2020
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History Matters: Webinar Series for Teachers
22 July - 23 September 2020
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Science Week
French Science on the High Seas: Voyages of discovery to our shores and beyond
18 August 2020
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Special Event
History Festival Schools Poetry Takeover
01 - 31 May 2020
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Family Pick
School Holidays: Happy Birthday Play School Exhibition
07 December 2019 - 28 January 2020
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Family Pick
Play School date with Zindzi
16 January 2020
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“Kis A Sailor” limited edition gin
01 March - 31 December 2019
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Special Event
Waterborne
11 - 15 December 2019
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Special Event
Dive into Shipwreck History!
06 December 2019
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Family Pick
School Holidays at the Museum – Pirates in their PJ’s
30 September - 11 October 2019
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Curator's Pick
Spice at any price
15 August 2019
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Science Week
Port River Pod: A Talk by Dr Mike Bossley
14 August 2019
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Steam Tug Yelta Port River Cruises 2019
17 February - 17 June 2019
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Steam and Station Historic Discovery Days 2019
17 February - 17 June 2019
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Family Pick
School Holidays at the museum – Survivor
16 - 28 April 2019
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Curator's Pick
Golden Globe Yacht Race
21 February 2019
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Family Pick
Celebrations for the Tour Down Under Stage 1 finish!
15 January 2019
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Curator's Pick
Waisted: How whalebone shaped the female form
09 November 2018
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In Whom We Trust
24 October 2018
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Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2018
25 March - 21 October 2018
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Family Pick
Muesums In The Port
13 - 14 October 2018
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Family Pick
School Holidays at the Museum – Sunken Secrets
02 - 12 October 2018
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Family Pick
Visit us at the Royal Adelaide Show
31 August - 09 September 2018
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Family Pick
Dads and Carers for Free on Father’s Day
02 September 2018
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Snowmageddon: The Penguins of Antarctica
09 - 20 July 2018
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Help us preserve Nelcebee for another 135 years
01 January - 22 June 2018
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Curator's Pick
Historic tug cruises: ST Yelta 2018
23 January - 03 June 2018
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Special Event
Ship Loads of Beer!
30 May 2018
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Shelf Life
21 May 2018
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Curator's Pick
Steam and Station Tours 2018
24 January - 20 May 2018
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Who were the 1836ers? Identifying the ships, passengers and crew
14 May 2018
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Jane Austen – Songs of the Sea
10 May 2018
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Secrets of Wedge Island: a forgotten history
08 May 2018
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Family Pick
Shipwrecked….again!
16 - 27 April 2018
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Whale of a Tale
08 - 25 January 2018
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Jane Austen’s Songs of the Sea
04 November 2017
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Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2017
06 May - 21 October 2017
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Family Pick
School holiday activity – Treasure Island, the other side of the story
03 - 13 October 2017
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Curator's Pick
The Bird Collections of the Baudin Expedition, 1803-1804
22 September 2017
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Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours
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Permanent Exhibitions
First Voyages: Exploring the Southern Coast
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Family Pick
Active II
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Port Adelaide Lighthouse
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Dolphins! The Port River Pod
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Action Stations: South Australia and the Navy
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Family Pick
Life’s A Beach
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Tapestry of Treasures: The First Nautical Museum
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Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas
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Bound for South Australia
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Mosquito Fleet
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Living in Port
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Curator's Pick
Windjammers
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Nelcebee
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ST Yelta
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MV Archie Badenoch
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Pondi: Kurri Winth-amaldi (Murray Cod: River Creator)
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Yuki (bark canoe): Sharing Ngarrindjeri culture
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Mr Bond’s Studio: Port Adelaide Through the Lens
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Temporary Exhibitions
Scenes from the South
17 May - 16 June 2024
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Sea Country Stories
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Final Week
Dark Things in Dark Places: The Wreck of the Star of Greece
13 July 2022 - 06 August 2023
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Labour of Love Pop-up Exhibition
01 May - 06 August 2021
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Family Pick
EXTENDED – Happy Birthday Play School Exhibition
07 December 2019 - 31 January 2021
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Final Week
Messing about in boats
22 May - 10 November 2019
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Curator's Pick
Lustre: Pearling & Australia
08 December 2018 - 28 April 2019
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Leviathan: An astonishing history of whales
15 December 2017 - 11 November 2018
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Kondoli: the woven whale
25 May - 02 September 2018
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Help us preserve Nelcebee for another 135 years
01 January - 22 June 2018
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Curator's Pick
Historic tug cruises: ST Yelta 2018
23 January - 03 June 2018
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Curator's Pick
Steam and Station Tours 2018
24 January - 20 May 2018
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Women of the River Country
16 October - 07 December 2017
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Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2017
06 May - 21 October 2017
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Curator's Pick
Through a different lens – Cazneaux by the Water
16 June - 15 October 2017
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The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804
30 June - 11 December 2016
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