Australian National Maritime Museum

The Australian National Maritime Museum offers indoor and outdoor attraction. This is really good entertainment for everyone especially for the family.

Australian National Maritime Museum is located on the western side of Darling Harbour. The address is 2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. The location is really strategies. It's not far from the CBD and it's in the attraction area of waterfront Darling Harbour.

You will notice the building structure of Australian National Maritime Museum is very unique with a roofline like waves and sails.

This is actually a great museum, it has variety of exhibits about maritime.

The museum exhibits such as European navigation, information about Indigenous, maritime defence, aquatic sport, Captain Cook's vessel of discovery, James Craig the 1874 tall ship and you can get into the amazing world of underwater warfare submarine. A guided tour shows how the crews worked and lived in there.

You will also see the Vaughan Evans Library that offers about 30,000 titles, the conservation laboratory, maritime museum collection storage, boat building workshops, American tools that used on ships, ship model workshop, old rafts from Aboriginal tribes, a lot of photos, a lot of display and many more. Guided tours are available in this museum. It's better to have full tour that allows you to venture on the warship as well as the submarine.

The museum is actually very well presented with lots of exhibits. Several interactive displays to make children attracted. Come early so you will have enough time to browse, because it’s a lot more to see.

Many families come to Australian National Maritime Museum; they enjoy the exhibitions and activities in there. Also a lot of school students as well as local and international tourists visit to Australian National Maritime Museum.

Australian National Maritime Museum also offers great program of fun activities for children in various age groups at the weekends and school holidays.

You can enjoy you lunch at Yots Café and Bar that have beautiful waterfront view and open air. There is a kiosk too. Porthole Kiosk, it's only at the back of Yots Café and Bar, you can buy snacks and drinks at this kiosk.

I and my family are really enjoyed in this museum. This museum is world class museum. This museum will give you several hours of excitement, a lot of information and entertainment. A must see attraction!

The Australian National Maritime Museum is open daily from 9.30am to 5pm (close at 6.00pm in January) and closed on 25 December (Christmas Day).

How to Get There:

You can walk from CBD across Pyrmont Bridge.

If you travel by train, get off at Town Hall station and walk across Pyrmont Bridge.

If you travel by bus, take bus 443 from York Street or from Circular Quay.

You also can take ferry; get off at Pyrmont Bay Wharf.

If you want to use monorail, get off at Harbourside station.

Or you can use lightrail, get off at Pyrmont Bay station.

If you drive, you can park at Harbourside Shopping Centre Carpark Station or you also can park at Star City Casino.