Overview

  • Features: Maritime museum featuring shipbuilders’ models, reconstructed ship cabins and relics from shipwrecks
  • Opening Times:  9:30am to 4:30pm, daily
  • Best Time to Visit: Anytime
  • Duration: 2 to 3 hours
  • Transport Options: Car, bus, train, ferry
  • Cost: Free
  • Address: Sidon Street, South Bank, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • Type: Museum

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What We Liked

Climbing aboard the HMAS Diamantina.

What We Disliked

Some maritime stories were quite sad.

Summary

If you enjoy visiting museums, the Queensland Maritime Museum is worth visiting on a holiday to Brisbane. If you are planning a visit to this museum, read this article to find out which are the top exhibits you should look out for when you get there.

Top Exhibits to Look Out For at the Queensland Maritime Museum

 

If you enjoy visiting museums, the Queensland Maritime Museum is worth visiting on a holiday to Brisbane. This museum, at the western end of the South Bank promenade, has a wide range of displays on maritime adventures along the Queensland coast. It lists among its exhibits shipbuilders’ models, reconstructed cabins from early coastal steamers and relics from early shipwrecks in the area. If you are planning a visit to this museum, read this article to find out which are the top exhibits you should look out for when you get there.

 

 

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Top Exhibits to Look Out For at the Queensland Maritime Museum

  • A sizeable map showing the location of more than 1,500 shipwrecks (mostly victims of the Reef) in Queensland’s waters since 1791
  • A display on the tragic sinking of the Pandora, the ship sent to retrieve the mutineers from Captain Cook’s Bounty
  • The pearling lugger Penguin
  • The bow of a Japanese pleasure boat, a yakatabume, donated to Brisbane by Japan after Expo ’88
  • Climb aboard the HMAS Diamantina, a restored 1945 navy frigate that served during World War II
  • A coal-fired tug, Forceful, is maintained in running order and cruises with passengers to Moreton Bay two seasons a year

 

 

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Tell us what you think. Are you planning to visit the Queensland Maritime Museum? If you’ve been here before, what was the highlight of your visit?

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