Using Twitter to provide virtual tours
17 Aug 2016
The Australian National Maritime Museum Learning team and the NSW Department of Education have embraced the use of social media to communicate and share exhibition content with teachers.
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Discover stories behind the latest exhibitions, fascinating explorations into maritime science and archaeology, and the surprising details of what happens inside (and outside) a modern working museum.
Treasures of the American Collection
06 Jul 2016
Where else can you see a President’s signature (Abraham Lincoln), a Queen’s signature (Victoria R), rare books and etchings, and a seventy-year-old gardenia in one place – but in the USA Gallery of the museum!
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Look to the horizon: Why latitude was easier to find than longitude
22 Jun 2016
Ships, Clocks and Stars: the Quest for Longitude tells the amazing story of how the problem of determining longitude at sea was solved.
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Time in motion: capturing the clockmaker's art
09 Jun 2016
How many people does it take to assemble a clock? For the replica of John Harrison’s H3, currently on display as part of Ships, Clocks & Stars: the Quest for Longitude, the answer is two master clockmakers.
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Where on earth are you? A beginners guide to longitude
08 Jun 2016
For as long as humans have been exploring, we have sought reliable methods to navigate our way across the Earth.
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Songlines: The art of navigating the Indigenous world
31 May 2016
For thousands upon thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have navigated their way across the lands and seas of Australia using paths called songlines or dreaming tracks.
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Ships, Clocks and Stars FREE teacher preview this June
30 May 2016
Join us for a private viewing of this fascinating and beautiful exhibition on Thursday 16 June 5.00pm – 7.00pm. Hear about our exciting new school programs and board HMB Endeavour to experience what life was really like on an 18th-century vessel. Afterwards, see the museum’s Vivid display – a spectacular rooftop projection viewed from our special vantage point.
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Lost at Sea: Finding Longitude with Ships, Clocks & Stars
19 Apr 2016
The problem of longitude – how to determine your location in an east-west direction at sea – plagued sea travel for centuries. The lack of reliable methods to determine it led to dangerous, long and costly voyages.
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Marooned on disintegrating ice: Catch Shackleton at the museum before it disappears
24 Mar 2016
The next day a blizzard set in, icebergs jostled and floes swirled rapidly around the fragile floating camp of 28 men as it drifted slowly north-west past the islands off the northern Antarctic Peninsula.
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‘Birds are acceptable…’: Waves and Water opens at Noosa Regional Gallery
23 Mar 2016
‘Grog and cigarettes are mostly out…milkshakes and tins of baby food are generally in, birds are acceptable provided they never ride a surfboard and keep always in the background, except on those special occasions…’
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