Full Tour inside Australian National Maritime Museum | Sydney CBD, NSW Australia 2021

The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) 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 in 1988. 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 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.

Permanent exhibitions at the museum are focused around six gallery spaces:

Navigators
Originally called “Discovery of Australia”, this gallery looks at discovery, exploration, and charting of Australia’s coastline by the Dutch, British, and French, as well as trade between the Indonesians and Australian Indigenous people before European discovery.

Eora-First People
Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and their relationship with the water.

Passengers
Looks at the journeys made to Australia by various groups, from the original settlers to war brides, refugees, and cruise ship visitors.

Watermarks
Celebrates “Australia’s love affair with the water” in terms of recreation and entertainment. The gallery was opened in December 2001, with major focal points including the yacht Blackmores First Lady (which was used by Australian Kay Cottee when she became the first woman to sail solo, nonstop, unassisted around the world), the coxless four rowing shell used by the Oarsome Foursome at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and a vessel from the Darwin Beer Can Regatta.

Navy
The role of the Royal Australian Navy (and before that, the Royal Navy’s Australian Squadron) in the defence of the nation. Includes the “Sydney Series”; models and histories of the four Australian warships named after the city of Sydney.

Australia–US relationship
The gallery looks at the links and commonalities between Australia and the US. A US$5 million endowment to the museum was the United States’ gift for Australia’s bicentenary, making the Australia-USA Gallery the only gallery in a national museum funded by a foreign nation. The gallery itself was designed by the Burley Katon Halliday firm

In addition, there are four other gallery spaces in the museum. The Tasman Light gallery contains the original lenses from the Tasman Island Lighthouse, and is used for temporary photographic exhibitions and as hireable space for functions. The other three galleries (two along the eastern side of the top level, and a third offset from the main body of the museum) are used separately or together to host temporary exhibitions.

Other items on display inside the museum, but not associated with any particular gallery, include Spirit of Australia, the water speed record-holding motorboat, and an anchor from HMS Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet.

Source: Wikipedia

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