Artefacts

Each artefact has its own story to tell and amongst the items currently displayed in the museum can be found;

• an aboriginal bark canoe
• the companionway from Joseph Conrad's barque Otago
• a fully-equipped 1/3 replica of a 19th century whaleboat
• the light from the Goose Island lighthouse
• an historically significant timber dinghy
• the carved eagle sternboard from the 1856 American whale ship Islander
• ships models and figureheads
• shipwreck artefacts
• scrimshaw
• whaling equipment
• navigation instruments
• shipwrights' tools
• the Goose Island lighthouse lens
• a restored Derwent River ferry wheelhouse