Maritime Museum of Tasmania

The collection is Tasmania's largest and most varied collection of maritime artifacts with particular interest to Tasmanian maritime history, from the earliest of times to the present technology of ship building. The collection includes over 10,000 photographs and numerous paintings representing colonial sail traders, whaleboats, warships, ketches, river steamers and modern catamarans.

Major items include the restored companionway from Joseph Conrad's barque "Otago", a fully equipped 1/3 replica whaleboat of the 19th century, the light from the Goose Island lighthouse, the Wilson dinghy, extensive collection of ship models, the carved Eagle sternboard from the American whaleship "Islander", built in 1856, broken up at Hobart in the late 1890's; ships figureheads, and the only known fully operational whale gun (the third last one made by Waffen Fabric Kongsberg, Norge) Other items include scrimshaw, whaling equipment, navigation equipment instruments, shipwrights' tools, and wreck artefacts. The museum also manages a library in excess of 500 volumes.

The Maritime Museum of Tasmania is open daily from 1000 - 1700

Admission costs are as below:
Adult AU$6.50
Child AU$4.00
Family AU$17.50

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