Responding to Change

AMMC Conference 2010

Maritime collecting redefined

Daina Fletcher

Senior Curator

Australian National Maritime Museum

Museums surveyed

• Axel Stenross Museum• Australian National Maritime

Museum• Ballina Naval and Maritime

Museum• Cairns Maritime Museum• Devonport Maritime Museum• Eden Killer Whale Museum• Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum• Lady Denman Maritime Museum• Mid North Coast Maritime Museum• Maritime Museum of Tasmania• Newcastle Maritime Museum • Norfolk island Maritime Museum

• Polly Woodside – Melbourne’s tall ship

• Port Albert Maritime Museum

• Port Ferry Historic Lifeboat Station

• Port of Echuca

• Queenscliff Maritime Museum

• Queensland Maritime Museum

• South Australian Maritime Museum

• South West Rocks Maritime Museum

• Sydney Heritage Fleet

• Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• Western Australian Museum

• Whyalla Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum

South Australian Maritime Museum opened 1986

WAM–Shipwreck Galleries & WAM - Maritime Fremantle

Polly Woodside opened 1978

Sydney Heritage Fleet est. 1966

Queensland Maritime Museum est 1971

Eden Killer Whale Museum est 1930, opened 1937

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum est 1980

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum est 1980

Port Fairy Lifeboat est 1989

Port of Echuca

Maritime Museum of Tasmania opened 1973

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

South Australian Maritime Museum opened 1986 PANM 1872

South Australian Maritime Museum opened 1986 PANM 1872

Axel Stenross Museum est. 1980 opened 1983

Ballina Naval and Maritime Museumest. 1983

Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village est. 1974

Norfolk Island

Port Albert Maritime Museum est 1976

Whyalla Maritime Museum

Lady Denman Museum est 1987

ANMM

Australian National Maritime Museum opened 1991