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 announc
Australian National Maritime Museum
The original lenses from the Tasman Island Lighthouse; centrepiece of the Tasman Light Gallery. The Westland Wessex helicopter in the background is suspended above the Navy Gallery
The James Craig, a 19th-century ship. It is available to tour with a museum ticket.
Three main vessels in the ANMM ship collection, the HM Bark Endeavour Replica, the destroyer HMAS Vampire, and the submarine HMAS Onslow, on display at the wharves outside the museum
HMB Endeavour replica is a replica of HMS Endeavour, the bark commanded by Lieutenant James Cook when he charted New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia.
Australian National Maritime Museum
…travel to Australia by sea and the naval defence of the nation. Four additional gallery spaces are used for temporary exhibits. Four museum ships – the HM Bark Endeavour Replica, the destroyer HMAS Vampire, the submarine HMAS Onslow and a replica of the Duyfken – are open to the public, while smaller historical vessels berthed…
The Australian replica of HMS Endeavour sailing from Whitby Harbour in June 2000
Closeup of the replica's bow, showing the two (furled) spritsails
The Endeavour replica at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney
The Endeavour replica on display at Chatham Dockyard, England, in September 2003