September 30, 2009
Lyneham High School performs outside the museum on 22 September 2009.
The museum loves music and encourages school bands to perform on its forecourt. So far we’ve had school bands from South Australia, Coffs Harbour and recently Lyneham High School from the ACT. We’d love to hear your school band perform. It’s a great way to get performance experience and show Sydney what your school band is made of.
If you’d like your school band to play at the museum, please contact us at events@anmm.gov.au
January 5, 2009
On public display for the first time in over 20 years the celebrated Charlotte Medal is one of the few objects still in existence from the voyage of First Fleet. Convict Thomas Barrett engraved the 74 mm silver Charlotte Medal on board the transport ship Charlotte when it was anchored in Botany Bay in January 1788. Along with the rest of the fleet Charlotte was awaiting Governor Phillip’s decision to sail north to strike the first European settlement at Port Jackson.
December 19, 2008
It all happens at the museum! The events team have been, rushed off their feet for months, organising spectacular Christmas parties. I just need to work out to get an invite... Copyright: Photo by EventPix
November 25, 2008
This new exhibit tells the story of two Japanese women – Teruko Blair and Sadako Morris – who met and fell in love with Australian soldiers during the Allied Occupation of Japan. They made Australian immigration history, being the first significant group of non-Europeans permitted to migrate to Australia in the early 1950s while the White Australia Policy was still in place.
November 5, 2008
A new installation in the Watermarks gallery of the Museum about Linda McGill pioneer of women's long distance swimming
October 31, 2008
Head of Conservation, Jonathan, and Anupa from Registration have just removed a 1780 Japanese woodblock and are replacing it with an eighteenth century French chart of the Indian Ocean. Museum staff regularly change objects in the galleries to keep displays ‘fresh’ and protect objects from being damaged by the lights. Visitors sometimes complain about low light levels in galleries but light damages all objects to some degree and generally speaking, the higher the light level – the greater the impact on the object.
October 16, 2008
... well we only have one, HMAS Onlsow. But still, yesterday she was moved, with help from the nice folks at the Defense Maritime Services, to Garden Island for a revamp. Here you can see her moving majestically past the Sydney Opera House.
October 13, 2008
Interested visitors visit the replica HMB Endeavour in Newcastle.
October 1, 2008
Grog-nose Johnny and the motley crew from Claremont Public School on the lookout for treasure!
September 24, 2008
The museum's exhibition of Bill Nix's paintings opened last week. It's great - and it's free. Check it out. (It closes on 2nd November 2008).
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