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Temporary Exhibitions
> Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas

Permanent Exhibitions
> Tapestry of Treasures: The First Nautical Museum
> Dolphins: The Pod in the Port
> Active II
> Action Stations!
> Life's A Beach
> Journeys
> Catch of the Day
> Rock Around the Pot
> Port Life
> Genealogy
> The Mosquito Fleet

> Travelling Exhibitions
> Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Journeys

What was it like to travel to your new home, Australia, by sea? Find out in our very real and evocative cabins.

For almost 130 years sea travel was the only way of overcoming distance, of leaving one’s homeland and arriving on the other side of the world.

See what it was like to do this in the 1840s, 1910s and 1950s. Did the trials of sea travel really change that much?