Read detailed stories behind our objects, our exhibitions, and explorations into maritime science and archaeology.
Bombing of Darwin
19 Feb 2017
Remembering 75 years since the Bombing of Darwin - the first attack by Japanese forces on the Australian mainland after Australia had officially declared war on Japan in 1941.
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Australia's First Watercraft
15 Dec 2016
From canoes to rafts and rediscovering traditional techniques, explore the history and types of watercraft used by Australia's Indigenous people.
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Pearl Harbor Remembered
08 Dec 2016
It is 75 years since the catastrophic attack which marked the USA's entry into World War II and Australia officially declaring war with Japan. Australian filmmaker Russell Dority recounts his father's first-hand experience of Pearl Harbor.
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Into the Abyss
18 Nov 2016
Remembering the naval engagement between HMAS Sydney (II)) and HSK Kormoran seventy-five years on.
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A Chance Encounter: Dirk Hartog’s Landing in 1616
19 Sep 2016
Four hundred years ago, Dutch mariner Dirk Hartog (1580–1621) sailed into history when, on 25 October 1616, he made the first documented European landing on the west coast of Australia.
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An Australian Sailor in the Spanish Civil War
02 Aug 2016
William Fowler was an Australian merchant sailor who found himself caught up in the Spanish Civil War, running blockades and rescuing refugees from the Basque region.
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Remembering AE2: Johnnie and Mehmet
19 Jun 2016
'Johnnie and Mehmet', is a striking sculpture which commemorates the engagement between WW1 Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS AE2 and Turkish torpedo boat Sultanhisar.
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Longitude: A Story That Goes Full Circle
05 May 2016
Explore the history of how the measurement of time and distance developed - from tracking the sun to Einstein conceiving his the theory of relativity.
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Windjammer Sailors
27 Apr 2016
The story behind the museum's life-sized bronze sculpture remembering the adventurous Windjammer sailors of the 1930s.
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The Boat in The Beach
27 Apr 2016
The Samuel Wright as one of the earliest ships known to have wrecked in Koombana Bay, Western Australia. Now, a team of archaeologists have excavated the American whaling ship using the latest technology.
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