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The Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Maritime Museums Council (AMMC) invite the AMMC Membership to develop and submit content for consideration as part of the upcoming graphic panel display, Submerged: stories of Australia’s shipwrecks.

The ANMM and AMMC are offering a series of nationwide workshops to support the development of this display. Click here to find out more about this exciting project and register for a FREE workshop near you.

Click here to submit your shipwreck story.

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'Submerged' on the Murray River

Posted by Emily Jateff on March 29, 2017 at 10:58 0 Comments 1 Like

The Submerged: stories of Australia’s shipwrecks workshops are now well underway. After a successful start in Hobart this February, the second workshop saw 30 individuals representing 18 South Australian organisations gather at Mannum, South Australia for a day of exhibition-related information sessions and networking.…

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$5000 maritime history prizes - nominations are now open!

Posted by Sharon Babbage on March 24, 2017 at 14:31 0 Comments 0 Likes

Call for entries for $5,000 maritime history prizes

Writers, publishers and readers of maritime history are invited to nominate works for maritime history prizes totalling $5,000, sponsored jointly by the Australian Association…

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Home Wanted for Code Flags

Posted by Rob Cook on March 8, 2017 at 8:00 1 Comment 1 Like

Paynesville Maritime Museum has been given a collection (not a complete set) of signal code flags but as they have no history at this size of use in our area of local history we are offering them to…

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Introducing Paynesville Maritime Museum

Posted by Rob Cook on February 17, 2017 at 8:00 0 Comments 0 Likes

Paynesville Maritime Museum is the “new kid on the block” and as such probably warrants a little explanation of where it came from, where it is at and what it does. As a first off in the AMMC blogsite we offer a short introduction to PMM, more in detail is on the website www.pmm.org.au. At roughly monthly intervals thereafter we will post some…

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