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Temporary Exhibitions
> Titanic: Voyage of the Century
> Tip of the Iceberg: unlocking the Maritime Museum stores

Temporary Online Exhibitions
> Farewell to Sails

Permanent Exhibitions
> Tapestry of Treasures: The First Nautical Museum
> Wrecked! Tragedy and the Southern Seas
> Dolphins: The Pod in the Port
> Active II
> Action Stations!
> Life's A Beach
> Bound for South Australia
> Port Life
> Genealogy
> The Mosquito Fleet

> Travelling Exhibitions
> Temporary Exhibition Gallery

For over 150 years, on ships and sledges, in one of the planet’s most hostile places, explorers risked their lives to plant a flag at a shifting point on the Earth’s surface.

The search for the South Magnetic Pole obsessed explorers and scientists long before the Geographic Pole. Quest explores the history of magnetism and the attempt to come to grips with how the Earth's magnetic field worked. It investigates the impulse behind this mad race and the extraordinary lengths explorers and scientists went to, to try and reach it. Australians were involved at each stage of the quest and it was an Australian scientist who ultimately claimed the prize in 2000.

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