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South Australian Maritime Museum

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Resources for families

History Festival Schools Poetry Takeover

Throughout May 2020, South Australian students in years 4 to 11 are invited to participate in the History Trust’s first-ever online poetry challeng...

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Social Narrative for visitors on the autism spectrum

In consultation with Autism SA, the South Australian Maritime Museum has developed a short guide to assist visitors with sensory sensitivity to prepar...

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Self Guided Museum Trails

These trail booklets are designed for teachers to use with students during a self- guided visit to the South Australian Maritime Museum. They introduc...

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Fact Sheets

The following fact sheets contain a summary of information about selected Maritime Museum objects and resources. Active II Fact Sheet Archie Badenoch ...

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Active II

A favourite for every visitor is the replica ketch Active II. Built by shipwright Bill Porter and rigged by sail maker Don Lucas in 1986, it fills o...

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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.