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South Australian Maritime Museum

Past Events and Exhibitions

Events

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

16 April - 01 May 2022
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Special Event

Adelaide Fringe: Pirates of Penzance

27 February 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

Cat’s Out of the Bag! – School Holidays

14 December 2020 - 22 January 2021
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Family Pick

Ted’s Big Day Out

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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ST Yelta cruising on the Port River

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

Mark Sinclair on his yacht

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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Captain John Dikkenberg

In Whom We Trust

24 October 2018
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Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

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

SA Maritime Museum

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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Nelcebee water colour by John Ford

Help us preserve Nelcebee for another 135 years

01 January - 22 June 2018
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Curator's Pick

ST Yelta cruising on the Port River

Historic tug cruises: ST Yelta 2018

23 January - 03 June 2018
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Special Event

Sailor with drink

Ship Loads of Beer!

30 May 2018
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Curator Lindl Lawton with tour group

Shelf Life

21 May 2018
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Curator's Pick

Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

Steam and Station Tours 2018

24 January - 20 May 2018
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Model of the Buffalo

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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Swimming a horse between a ketch and shore

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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Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

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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Temporary Exhibitions

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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Nelcebee water colour by John Ford

Help us preserve Nelcebee for another 135 years

01 January - 22 June 2018
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Curator's Pick

ST Yelta cruising on the Port River

Historic tug cruises: ST Yelta 2018

23 January - 03 June 2018
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Curator's Pick

Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

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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Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2017

06 May - 21 October 2017
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Curator's Pick

Cazneaux by the water

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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