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The Maritime Museum builds on the legacy of previous organisations including the Port Adelaide Institute. The museum holds in trust, a collection that the institute founded in 1872 and is now the oldest nautical collection in Australia.
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was built by GMH's Birkenhead factory in 1942 for the Royal Australian Navy and was later used as South Australia's police rescue launch. The oldest vessels in the collection are the timber ketch
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The Maritime Museum also preserves the Weman Sailmakers loft (1864), and has its offices in the former Commercial Bank building (1888), both in Lipson Street, across from the museum.
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in 1802 to mourn the loss of seafarers, the trophy that Hilda Harvey won for the 1930 Swim Through the Port, and the boots that once belonged to ketch skipper Skug Cutler.
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in sail up until 1949. It also holds an extensive maritime archaeology collection which has been transferred to it by the South Australian government's Heritage Unit.
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Today, the museum's collection includes more than 20,000 objects that represent voyages that shaped the map and moments that shaped daily life. The collection includes
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that was shipped from Scotland in parts and launched in Port Adelaide's Inner Harbor in 1883. Both are stored on hard stand. The collection also includes Sir
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in 1949 and fitted with a steam engine that had been built for a corvette but was left surplus when the war ended.
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in 1900. The museum preserves 17 figureheads, the largest collection in Australia with the earliest being the
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In 2016 the museum hosted the inaugural showing of a two-year national travelling exhibition from the
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that served southern ports from the 19th century to the 1960s, life in port, and the ecology of the
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Exploration is one of the strengths of the collection with objects from the voyages of
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The Art of Science: Baudin’s Voyagers 1800 — 1804 opens at the SA Maritime Museum
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Exhibitions focus on the exploration of the southern coast and the voyages of
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The Maritime Museum provides cruises on two vessels: the steam tug
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that was built in 1869 and originally stood at the entrance to the
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The SA Maritime Museum's offices in Lipson Street, built in 1888.
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The museum presents exhibitions in a pair of adjoining stone
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grain trade which delivered wheat and barley to Europe
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South Australian Maritime Museum is located in South Australia
Port Adelaide
South Australia
Coordinates
34°50′35″S 138°30′23″E / 34.8431°S 138.5063°E / -34.8431; 138.5063
https://maritime.history.sa.gov.au/
History Trust of South Australia
Port Adelaide

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Port Adelaide lighthouse
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