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Australian National Maritime Museum’s Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country wins at Museums + Heritage Awards

May 22, 2019

The Australian National Maritime Museum’s Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country has won International Project of the Year with a budget of less than £1m at the Museums + Heritage Awards in London overnight – one of the most prestigious international museum awards in the world.

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SS Iron Crown

WWII shipwreck discovered

April 23, 2019

Australian freighter SS Iron Crown found after being sunk by submarine in 1942.

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Australian Sailing Hall of Fame 2018 inductees

Australian Sailing Hall of Fame 2019 Nominations Now Open

April 10, 2019

Australian Sailing and the Australian National Maritime Museum are excited to announce that nominations have opened today for the prestigious Australian Sailing Hall of Fame.

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Textile artists Sayd Abdali and Jane Théau. Image:  Jane Théau

Statement by the Director of the Australian National Maritime Museum on the Alliance of Migration and Multicultural Museums.

April 08, 2019

"The Australian National Maritime Museum was pleased to convene a meeting of Australia’s migration and major ethnic specific museums on 2 April 2019 to discuss the ways in which museums can build understanding of diversity and in doing so, help address discrimination against migrants, refugees and their families" said Kevin Sumption PSM.

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Karen Mundine Kevin Sumption Alison Page Dr Jackie Huggins Peter Dexter

Australian National Maritime Museum Launches Reconciliation Action Plan

March 06, 2019

Wednesday 6 March: The Australian National Maritime Museum and Reconciliation Australia have today launched the museum’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), formalising their ongoing commitment to promoting and contributing to reconciliation.

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The SeaBin in action at the museum

Sydney’s first Seabins splash down!

February 19, 2019

Today, the first two full-time Seabins have splashed down in Sydney – one in Darling Harbour and one in the Parramatta River. This comes less than a year after the Seabin Project first demoed its ingenious floating rubbish bins in Australian waters. To date, the Australian-invented Seabin has over 435 Seabins collecting waterway pollutants in ports, marinas and yacht clubs around the world but no permanent ones in Australia until now. 

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Australian National Maritime Museum staff with rainbow flag, 2019

Pride Flies High

February 13, 2019

For the first time in its 28 year history, the Australian National Maritime Museum will proudly raise a rainbow flag above at its Darling Harbour location to recognise and celebrate its commitment to telling the “hidden histories” of LGBTQI people at sea, as well as to the Museum’s diverse staff and guests. 

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© Valter Bernadeschi

54th Wildlife Photographer of the Year opens

February 12, 2019

The largest wildlife photography competition in the world, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, on loan from the Natural History Museum in London, is opening at the Australian National Maritime Museum on 7 March, with discounted pre-sales opening today. 

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2 underwater divers filming a large great white shark

Maritime Museum launches new talk series

February 04, 2019

For the love of oceans! The Australian National Maritime Museum is launching an exciting new monthly talk series in 2019, Ocean Talks, with a range of fascinating marine experts who will challenge everything you know about the depths (and shallows) of earth’s oceans.

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HMB Endeavour at sea

Voyage to mark 250-year Cook anniversary in 2020

January 22, 2019

The replica ship HMB Endeavour will circumnavigate Australia from March 2020 to May 2021, to mark 250 years since Captain James Cook reached the east coast of Australia.

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