TREASURE HUNT  - EVERYDAY

FREE ENTRY TO THE MUSEUM - CHILDREN UNDER 16

The museum is open every day and we have a treasure hunt activity to keep children busy in the museum.

Small prize if they answer all the questions.

Ask at the font desk on arrival.

ART WORKSHOPS

The Museum hosts a range of arts based workshops during the school terms on site.  These are organised and run by individual operators. If you are interested, please contact the Museum.

Phone 4441 - 5675

POSSUM SKIN CLOAK

 Until October 2022

In 2021, the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum commissioned highly respected Gorawarl-Wandandian artist Aunty Julie Freeman to make a possum skin cloak for our collection, with her daughter, Markeeta Freeman. This exhibition is a wonderful introduction into a cultural aspect of Aboriginal life full of meaning and understanding.

The cloaks were important to Aboriginal Culture in south-eastern  Australia and tell stories of family, belonging, and place. Inspired by the recent cloak making revival, this cloak sits at the intersection of traditional practice and contemporary art, embodying old and new techniques to tell stories of culture, country and identity. It is a cloak made on Country, for Country.

The pelts were sourced from NZ.

CULLUNGHUTTI

CLOSES 31ST  AUGUST

Created by NSW Parks and Wildlife Service and the Jerrinja Aboriginal community, Cullunghutti tells the story of the resilience and survival of the Jerrinja People and their continuous connection to country.

Cullunghutti (Coolangatta Mountain) is a deeply sacred site for the Jerrinja Aboriginal people, who believe the mountain is a place for stepping off into the afterlife. Since the arrival of Europeans in the Shoalhaven in the 1820s, the Jerrinja People have increasingly been dispossessed of the land surrounding Cullunghutti, culminating in the establishment of Roseby Park Aboriginal Reserve in 1900. This exhibition details that history in stark detail, in a way that is becoming more widely accepted.

COMING SOON

RANDALL SINNAMON:

AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK

OPENS: SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER

Every year the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum and Gallery profiles the work of a local artist.  In 2022, we are pleased to present the work of Randall Sinnamon.

Randall is a well known artist who has exhibited his work  widely, and at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum & Gallery regularly since the 1990's. He uses sculpture, painting and printmaking as a means to express a continuous and passionate investigation of nature and humanity.

In keeping with his arts practice, this exhibition of new work is designed to amuse,  challenge and excite his audiences with opportunities to reflect upon themselves and the social world they live in.

THE HALLORAN CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE 2022

The Jervis Bay Maritime Museum and Gallery is excited to announce the  inaugural Halloran Contemporary Art Prize, 2022.  This new Art Prize will be held Biennially, the aim of which  is to overlay a contemporary lens and understanding of the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum’s Halloran Collection and to delve into its mysteries, which are for the most part hidden from the viewer.   The collection is complex and diverse, and displayed in the manner of an 18th century Curiosity Cabinet or Wunderkammer.

Closing date for this year’s selection of entries will be Close of Business, Friday 30th September 2022.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY: HERE

ENTRY FORM: HERE

MORNING MARKETS 10AM - 1PM (MAY - SEPT)

FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

From May - September , enjoy a relaxed Saturday morning browsing at our Morning Markets, with a variety of arts and crafts, home wares, local produce, and a range of food choices, including our fundraising BBQ.

If you are a market stall-holder who would like to join us at our market, please click on the following link: Expression of Interest

If you are a musician or band who is interested in playing at the markets, please click on the following link: Market Music