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Australian National Maritime Museum

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Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Australian National Maritime Museum
Phone:
+61 2 9298 3777

Hours:
Sunday9:30am - 5pm
Monday9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday9:30am - 5pm
Thursday9:30am - 5pm
Friday9:30am - 5pm
Saturday9:30am - 5pm


The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales State government's redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary. The museum building was designed by Philip Cox, and although an opening date of 1988 was initially set, construction delays, cost overruns, and disagreements between the state and federal governments over funding responsibility pushed the opening back to 1991. One of six museums directly operated by the federal government, the ANMM is the only one located outside of the Australian Capital Territory. The museum is structured around seven main galleries, focusing on the discovery of Australia, the relationships between the Australian Aborigines and the water, travel to Australia by sea, the ocean as a resource, water-based relaxation and entertainment, the naval defence of the nation, and the relationship between the United States of America and Australia. The last gallery was funded by the United States government, and is the only national museum gallery in the world funded by a foreign nation. Four additional gallery spaces are used for temporary exhibits. Three museum ships – the HM Bark Endeavour Replica, the destroyer HMAS Vampire, and the submarine HMAS Onslow – are open to the public, while smaller historical vessels berthed outside can be viewed but not boarded.
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