The museum houses Tasmania 's largest and most varied collection of maritime artefacts on display including:

• the Goose Island lighthouse lens
• an aboriginal bark canoe
• the companionway from Joseph Conrad's barque Otago
• a fully-equipped 1/3 replica of a 19th century whaleboat
• an historic example of the wooden dinghy builder’s skill
• the carved eagle sternboard from the 1856 American whaleship Islander
• ships models and figureheads
• shipwreck artefacts
• scrimshaw
• whaling equipment
• navigation instruments
• shipwrights' tools.

The collection also includes over 40,000 photographs and numerous paintings representing colonial sail traders, whaleboats, warships, ketches, river steamers and modern catamarans.

The museum also manages a library of more than 500 volumes.

Donations

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