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Our Collection

The Warship & Marine Corps Museum Collection includes:

  • A library of over 5000 books and government documents covering all periods of Naval history, used to help research Museum
    displays;
  • Diaries and handwritten personal accounts of life in the Navy both ashore & afloat, in war and peace;
  • Uniforms, rank and ratings badges and medals along with an extensive collection of cap tallies;
  • Models of ships;
  • Paintings, prints and original recruiting posters from around the world;
  • Numerous maps from the 17th and 18th centuries – many depicting New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land;
  • Approximately 6,000 Naval-related postcards from 1890s through to 1945;
  • Signatures of most Royal Australian Navy commissioning and decommissioning crews since the second half of the 20th Century, autographed command cards, historical photographs and documents, newspaper posters;
  • Nameplates, shell cases and signal flags, life buoys and other artefacts from ships;
  • Photographs and documents relating to the U.S. Apollo Mission Moon Landings;
  • More than 100,000 negatives of Naval ships from a large number of navies taken from the early 1930s to the present. Prints available via our shop.

NAVAL EQUIPMENT

PRINTS & POSTERS

VISIT

The Museum collection is now on display, together with the Museum shop “Mainly Maritime”, in the seaside town of St Helens, in Tasmania, Australia.

Open 10am-5pm daily
Parking available on-site.

Admission Costs:
Adults – $10
Concession (pensioners, local residents and full-time students over 18) – $8
Children 7-17 – $5
Children under 7 – free

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