South Australia Maritime Museum Virtual Tour

Always a great site to see, even if you can’t be there in person. Visit virtually any time and explore at your own pace using Google Arts and Culture.

Indigenous History of the Port

An online video for schools. Explore the Indigenous side of the port’s history via interviews by students from LeFevre High School. You can watch the presentation in its entirety, or as chapters.

Maritime Heritage

Before roads and rail, we used the sea, rivers and lakes to transport our goods, and people. Supporting features included lighthouses, jetties, wharves, wharf sheds and customs buildings. Today we might just think of maritime heritage as historic shipwrecks.

Port Adelaide Historical Society Museum

Preserving the Past for the Future. The Port’s local community museum contains historic collections (including the maritime collection of Keith Leleu) to address the loss of all things maritime. It houses a wide collection of artefacts, published materials, books, photographs and models; to interest all who love Port Adelaide and ships.

Whyalla Museum

A regional museum encompassing the local maritime, pastoral and industrial past.

Sign in front of a museum ship reading, "WHYALLA VISITOR CENTRE & MARITIME MUSEUM"

Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum

Occupying the former 1865 post office building with extensive display of items relating to the town’s nautical past and the copper smelting industry. Put it on your to-do list when next in that region.

Sea Museum resources for kids and teachers

Is all your homework done?

Sea Museum Games: Award-winning online games that are all mapped to the Australian Curriculum and are designed not just to explore Knowledge and Understanding, but also to Inquiry and Skills development, practice and mastery.

Teaching resources

The Sea Museum has a range of classroom resources that you can find here:

Wartime Resources

Firsthand: Japanese Submarine Attacks on Sydney and Newcastle

A short YouTube video with oral histories of the events of 1942 when midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour and later Newcastle.

Remembering the submarine attack on Sydney Harbour

ABC News 2012 report on the attack and the finding of lost sub off the coast (with transcript).

Target Australia

A more in-depth paper read by Mark Felton on the Japanese Submarine Attacks. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 each about 30 mins long.

He’s Coming South

The Attack on Sydney Harbour – a dramatized 90 min narrated video of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s entry into the war against USA and British Empire. Original film and news reels used effectively.

1942 Newsreel

Original British newsreel on the Japanese attack on Sydney.