Past Events and Exhibitions

Family Pick

Cat’s Out Of The Bag! Activity Trail

24 July 2024 - 30 June 2025

Lighthouse Lore & Portside Pour: A journey through Port Adelaide’s past

16 - 24 May 2025

Australia’s First Nautical Museum: The Legacy of Vernon Smith

04 May 2025

The Grandfather of the Maritime Museum: Vernon Smith Turns 150!

02 May 2025

School holidays: Navigation LEGO® Trail

07 - 27 April 2025

Salty Sessions: CLICK!

04 April 2025

Adelaide Fringe: Gilbert & Sullivan Season

21 - 22 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: Curator’s Tour

14 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: Rhapsody in Chicago Blues

23 February 2025

Special Event

Dockside Festival

08 - 09 February 2025

Family Pick

School Holiday Program: Gory Stories

14 December 2024 - 27 January 2025

Family Pick

School Holidays: Gory Stories LEGO® Trail

14 December 2024 - 27 January 2025

Family Pick

School Holidays: Gory Stories Performances

16 - 19 January 2025

New Found Sound

18 January 2025

Family Pick

Caught in the Port Scavenger Trail

03 August - 30 October 2024

Family Pick

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation – Claymation

11 - 13 October 2024

Nature Festival – Yuki (bark canoe): Sharing Ngarrindjeri culture – in conversation

13 October 2024

Family Pick

School Holidays: Seafarers LEGO® Trail

28 September - 13 October 2024

Family Pick

Port Dock Railway Line – Community Open Day

24 August 2024

H.M.S. Pinafore

16 - 17 August 2024

The marine science century: 100 voyages of the nation’s marine research ship

04 August 2024

Family Pick

School Holidays: Investigator LEGO® Trail

29 June - 21 July 2024

Special Event

Mapping Home: South Australia and beyond

24 May 2024

Pamela and The Duchess: Life on the last windjammers

08 March 2023 - 15 May 2024

Special Event

Over the Ocean Blue – with the Adelaide Male Voice Choir

04 May 2024

Family Pick

School Holidays: LEGO® Trail Creature Quest

29 March - 28 April 2024

Adelaide Fringe: Curators Guided Tour

07 - 16 March 2024

Special Event

Matthew Flinders turns 250!

16 March 2024

Adelaide Fringe: Pirates of Penzance

15 March 2024

Adelaide Fringe: VOYAGE: Folk Traditions Anew

10 March 2024

Adelaide Fringe: HOMER’S ODYSSEY – A mini musical

24 February - 03 March 2024

Adelaide Fringe: Rhapsody in Chicago Blues

25 February 2024

Adelaide Fringe: A Taste of Spain

18 February 2024

Family Pick

Lego Trail: Follow the stars

16 December 2023 - 28 January 2024

Family Pick

The Big Book of Pirates: HeapsGood Productions

06 - 09 January 2024

Salty Sessions: Shanty!

02 December 2023

Special Event

From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea

18 November 2023

Red Leviathan: Ryan Tucker Jones on the secret history of Soviet whaling

05 November 2023

Family Pick

School Holidays: LEGO® Trail Pirate Edition

16 September - 15 October 2023

Family Pick

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – LEGO® Animation

06 - 07 October 2023

Family Pick

School holidays: Around the World LEGO® Trail

24 June - 23 July 2023

Special Event

Celtic Waters: Duo Celtica & Telenn Tri

23 July 2023

Family Pick

School holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – Whiteboard Animation

20 - 22 July 2023

Special Event

Sailors, Settlers and their Songs

27 May 2023

Family Pick

Night at the Museum

20 May 2023

Special Event

Creative Histories: Using Wonder to Disrupt and Heal the Past

11 May 2023

Family Pick

School holidays: Creature Quest LEGO® Trail

07 - 30 April 2023

Family Pick

School holidays: GooRoo Animation Workshop – LEGO® Animation

27 - 29 April 2023

School holidays: Sea Creature Origami

17 - 26 April 2023

Follow The Stars – LEGO® Trail

17 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Family Pick

GooRoo Animation: Claymation

02 - 08 January 2023

Community Group Tours

06 September 2021 - 31 December 2022

Salty Sessions: Inked

25 November 2022

Family Pick

School Holidays – LEGO Trail: Pirate Edition

01 - 16 October 2022

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation

13 - 16 October 2022

Ten Pound Poms

08 - 10 September 2022

Fathers Day

04 September 2022

Family Pick

Dive Deep, Dream Big: Book Week Story Time at the Museum

20 - 21 August 2022

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Ship N Bricks: Seafarers Edition

09 - 24 July 2022

Illuminating Songwriters Who Fly Under the Radar

23 July 2022

School Holidays: Origami Art

09 - 20 July 2022

Special Event

Songs from the Edge of World

08 July 2022

Special Event

TALK: Museums and the Virtual World

09 June 2022

Special Event

South Australia’s History Festival – Finding Flinders: The Man behind the Map

26 May 2022

Special Event

| SOLD OUT | South Australia’s History Festival – Lockdown: How we quarantined before COVID

06 - 15 May 2022

Special Event

| SOLD OUT | South Australia’s History Festival – Tall Ships and Sailor Boys

14 May 2022

Special Event

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation

27 April - 01 May 2022

Family Pick

School Holidays: Ship N Bricks

11 December 2021 - 27 January 2022

Family Pick

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation Claymation

21 - 25 January 2022

Special Event

Autism Friendly Sensory Sessions

23 - 24 October 2021

Family Pick

School Holidays: Ship n Bricks

25 September - 10 October 2021

Family Pick

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation

25 - 28 September 2021

Special Event

Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours – September 2021

17 - 19 September 2021

Special Event

EXTENDED: Ship N’ Bricks!

31 July - 01 August 2021

Special Event

NAIDOC Week – Kaurna Cultural Walking Tour of Port Adelaide

11 July 2021

Special Event

Labour of Love Paste Up walk

01 - 31 May 2021

Drowning, Not Waving…

16 - 30 May 2021

Family Pick

Ted’s Big Day Out

14 December 2020 - 22 January 2021

Family Pick

Cat’s Out of the Bag! – School Holidays

14 December 2020 - 22 January 2021

Family Pick

School Holiday Scavenger Hunt

28 September - 09 October 2020

History Matters: Webinar Series for Teachers

22 July - 23 September 2020

Science Week

French Science on the High Seas: Voyages of discovery to our shores and beyond

18 August 2020

Special Event

History Festival Schools Poetry Takeover

01 - 31 May 2020

Family Pick

School Holidays: Happy Birthday Play School Exhibition

07 December 2019 - 28 January 2020

Family Pick

Play School date with Zindzi

16 January 2020

“Kis A Sailor” limited edition gin

01 March - 31 December 2019

Special Event

Waterborne

11 - 15 December 2019

Special Event

Dive into Shipwreck History!

06 December 2019

Family Pick

School Holidays at the Museum – Pirates in their PJ’s

30 September - 11 October 2019

Curator's Pick

Spice at any price

15 August 2019

Science Week

Port River Pod: A Talk by Dr Mike Bossley

14 August 2019

Steam Tug Yelta Port River Cruises 2019

17 February - 17 June 2019

Steam and Station Historic Discovery Days 2019

17 February - 17 June 2019

Family Pick

School Holidays at the museum – Survivor

16 - 28 April 2019

Curator's Pick

Golden Globe Yacht Race

21 February 2019

Family Pick

Celebrations for the Tour Down Under Stage 1 finish!

15 January 2019

Curator's Pick

Waisted: How whalebone shaped the female form

09 November 2018

In Whom We Trust

24 October 2018

Passengers lining up at the Quarantine Station

Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2018

25 March - 21 October 2018

Family Pick

Muesums In The Port

13 - 14 October 2018

Family Pick

School Holidays at the Museum – Sunken Secrets

02 - 12 October 2018

Family Pick

Visit us at the Royal Adelaide Show

31 August - 09 September 2018

Family Pick

Dads and Carers for Free on Father’s Day

02 September 2018

Snowmageddon: The Penguins of Antarctica

09 - 20 July 2018

Help us preserve Nelcebee for another 135 years

01 January - 22 June 2018

Curator's Pick

Historic tug cruises: ST Yelta 2018

23 January - 03 June 2018

Special Event

Ship Loads of Beer!

30 May 2018

Shelf Life

21 May 2018

Curator's Pick

Steam and Station Tours 2018

24 January - 20 May 2018

Who were the 1836ers? Identifying the ships, passengers and crew

14 May 2018

Jane Austen – Songs of the Sea

10 May 2018

Swimming a horse between a ketch and shore

Secrets of Wedge Island: a forgotten history

08 May 2018

Family Pick

Shipwrecked….again!

16 - 27 April 2018

Whale of a Tale

08 - 25 January 2018

Jane Austen’s Songs of the Sea

04 November 2017

Torrens Island Quarantine Station Tours 2017

06 May - 21 October 2017

Family Pick

School holiday activity – Treasure Island, the other side of the story

03 - 13 October 2017

Curator's Pick

The Bird Collections of the Baudin Expedition, 1803-1804

22 September 2017