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australian national maritime museum annual report 2004–2005
OUR VISION IS TO BE THE
NATION’S MOST DYNAMIC
CULTURAL RESOURCE,
ENRICHING LIVES BY
PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND
ENJOYMENT OF AUSTRALIA’S
RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS
WATERWAYS AND THE SEA
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© Commonwealth of Australia 2005
ISSN 1034-5019
This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted
under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be
reproduced by any process without prior permission
from the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Australian National Maritime Museum
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)
at Darling Harbour, Sydney, opens 9.30 am–5.00 pm
every day (open 9.30 am–6.00 pm January)
Closed 25 December
Entry at 30 June 2005
Museum Ticket (including museum galleries, special
exhibitions, lighthouse and Wharf 7): FREE
Big Ticket (including Vampire, Onslow, James Craig,
Endeavour and audio guide):
adult $30, child/concession $16, family $65
Big Ticket (including Vampire, Onslow and EITHER
James Craig or Endeavour and audio guide):
adult $25, child/concession $13, family $55
Navy Ticket (includes Vampire, Onslow and audio
guide): adult $18, child/concession $9, family $40
James Craig Ticket:
adult $10, child/concession $6, family $20
Endeavour Ticket:
adult $15, child/concession $8, family $30
2 Murray Street Darling Harbour NSW:
Executive, commercial & visitor services,
building services, security, fl eet
Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre Pyrmont NSW:
Vaughan Evans Library, curators, registration,
conservation, design, volunteers and ANMM
administration, Sydney Heritage Fleet:
Mailing address
GPO Box 5131 Sydney NSW 2001
telephone (02) 9298 3777
facsimile (02) 9298 3780
Website (including this annual report)
www.anmm.gov.au
CONTACT OFFICER
For enquiries about this report please contact
the editor
telephone (02) 9298 3647
facsimile (02) 9298 3670
email jmellefont@anmm.gov.au
Editor Jeffrey Mellefont ANMM
Assistant editor Dr Wendy Wilkins ANMM
Photography Andrew Frolows (staff photographer),
Jeffrey Mellefont ANMM, unless otherwise credited
Graphic designer Jeremy Austen, austenkaupe
Layout and production Vanda Graphics
Printed in Australia by Focus Press
cover: Seahorse stern ornament
from the royal launch of King Louis
Philippe, carved at Cherbourg
dockyard, 1830–1848. It’s one
of the magnifi cent sculptures the
museum has borrowed from the
Musée National de la Marine,
Paris, for this year’s outstanding
exhibition Les Génies de la Mer
– Masterpieces of French Naval
Sculpture. Photographer
A Frolows/ANMM
title page: HM Bark Endeavour
at anchor, watercolour (1989) by
Western Australian artist Ross
Shardlow. ANMM collection
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It gives me great pleasure to present the Australian National Maritime Museum’s
Annual Report for the period 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. We are now midway
through the museum’s Strategic Plan for 2003 to 2006, and I’m pleased to report
we’re achieving the goals and outcomes which we set ourselves.
There have been some exciting and challenging milestones during the year under
report. None were higher profi le than the arrival of the Endeavour replica at the
museum. The spectacular ship was transferred to the Australian Government by the
HM Bark Endeavour Foundation which had operated it over the last decade and a half.
The replica was then gifted to the museum by the Australian Government, along with
additional funds for its operation. The eyes of Australia are on us as the museum takes
on stewardship of this extraordinary artefact which has been acclaimed world wide,
and which for so many Australians is a powerful symbol of their history.
This year, too, the museum’s Council has endorsed the bold step of making entry
to the museum’s galleries free to all visitors. This initiative has undergone intitial trials
with impressive success, and in making it a continuing feature we are acknowledging
the paramount importance of increasing public access to this, the nation’s leading
maritime heritage resource. We are confi dent that subsequent reviews will reinforce
the value of this arrangement.
The year’s outstanding exhibitions, educational programs and public events build
the museum’s reputation for continually renewing, expanding and elaborating the
concepts of maritime history and heritage. I’d like to pay special tribute to all who
worked to bring the spectacular Les Génies de la Mer – Masterpieces of French Naval
Sculpture all the way from Paris. It’s an exhibition that has, for many people, redefi ned
the notion of what a maritime museum is about.
I would like once again to offer thanks to all who have made these achievements
possible: the Australian Government and the Minister for the Arts and Sport Senator
the Hon Rod Kemp – in particular for his enthusiasm and fi nancial support for bringing
the Endeavour replica to the museum; corporate and individual sponsors, donors
and supporters; my fellow Council members; and a dedicated management, staff and
volunteers.
Mark Bethwaite, Chairman
Australian National Maritime Museum
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
Chairman Mark Bethwaite with
the fi gurehead from Queen Marie-
Antoinette’s ceremonial launch, at
the opening of Génies de la Mer
– Masterpieces of French Naval
Sculpture
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Vision statement 1
Contact offi cer 2
Chairman’s message 3
Mission statement 6
Values 7
CONTENTS
SECTION 1 YEAR IN REVIEW
Highlights 2004–2005 10
Director’s overview 12
Exhibitions and major events 20
Statutory information requirements: 26
Effectiveness in managing human resources, joint consultative council,
occupational health and safety, workplace diversity, access and equity,
Commonwealth disability strategy, disability action plan, environmental
performance, insurance and indemnity, risk management, developments in
external scrutiny, reports by the Auditor General, fraud control, advertising
and market research, corporate governance, freedom of information, judicial
decisions, ministerial directions
SECTION 2 PERFORMANCE REPORTING
Key Result Area 1 Engaging our audiences 30
Strategies and performance reporting:
a modern maritime museum; education and visitor programs; market research;
venue hire and catering; The Store; Sydney by Sail
Key Result Area 2 Maritime heritage 36
Strategies and performance reporting:
maritime heritage and material culture, Australian Register of Historic Vessels,
Blackmore’s First Lady, Tu Do, maritime archaeology program, maritime history
book prize, acquisitions, registration and conservation, USA Gallery, Indigenous
affairs, fl eet, Vaughan Evans Library, outreach and collaboration
Key Result Area 3 Infrastructure development 46
Strategies and performance reporting:
early loan repayment, capital works, building services, security,
communications and information management services, human resource
management and OHS, staffi ng overview, volunteers
Key Result Area 4 Reputation and recognition 52
Strategies and performance reporting:
customer feedback, marketing, media, publications and website, design,
corporate support, The Welcome Wall, Members
Performance overview 57
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SECTION 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Statement by Council members 58
Independent audit report 60
Statement of fi nancial performance 62
Statement of fi nancial position 63
Statement of cash fl ows 64
Schedule of commitments and contingencies 65
Notes 66
SECTION 4 APPENDICES
01. Visitors and Members programs 98
02. Selected acquisitions to the National Maritime Colllection 102
03. Donors to the National Maritime Colllection 105
04. MMAPSS grants 112
05. ANMM publications 114
06. Staff publications 115
07. Staff conference papers and lectures 116
08. Staff media appearances 118
09. Staff professional appointments 120
10. Staff overseas travel 121
11. Organisation chart at 30 June 2005 122
12. APS staff at 30 June 2005 123
13. Council members 126
14. Council meetings and committees 128
15. Australian National Maritime Foundation 129
16. Sponsors, patrons and supporters 130
17. Corporate and supporting members 131
18. Volunteers 132
19. Volunteer speakers panel 135
20. Consultants 136
21. Customer service charter 137
22. List of Acts administered 138
23. Functions and powers of the minister 139
24. Functions and powers of the museum 140
25. Director’s statement 141
26. Index 142
Images from the exhibition Les
Génies de la Mer – Masterpieces
of French Naval Sculpture.
Photographs © Musée National de
la Marine, Paris
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OUR MISSION IS TO BRING
MARITIME HERITAGE TO LIFE
AND PRESERVE IT FOR FUTURE
GENERATIONS THROUGH...
national
leadership and
international
collaboration
programs and
products that are
creative, inclusive,
enjoyable and
memorable
fostering
traditional skills
and practices
research,
acquisition,
conservation,
interpretation,
outreach and
education
top: More than 60 members of
the Zamprogno family from Italy
attended the unveiling of panel 36
of the Welcome Wall, in October
2004.
left: Replica of Lt James Cook’s
Endeavour sails home.
The best of all was the
National Maritime Museum.
I had a lovely wander there.
And it’s a good thing to do on
a wet day, beautiful. Gee, they
do it well. Had a walk around
Endeavour, the Captain Cook
replica ship. Just fabulous.
Mike Carlton
Sydney 2UE
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OUR VALUES
we value
partnership and
collaboration
we promote a broad
interpretation of
maritime heritage
and culture
we strive for the
highest standards
of service
we focus on the
lives of people
as the core of
our products and
programs
we regard
engagement,
innovation and
creativity as the
keystones of our
work
we champion
integrity and ethical
practice
we encourage
commitment,
application and
achievement
top: Decorated powder horn from
a whale ship, Boston, USA, circa
1840, on display in Scrimshaw
– Art of the Whaler.
left: Esther and Evie Rolfe-
Douglass dressed sailor-style for
the school holiday About Time
program in Sailor Street
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left: Transom of a model of the
100-gun, 17th-century fl agship
of Louis XIV, Le Soleil Royal.
Reconstruction by Jean-Baptiste
Tanneron, Paris, 1839 © Musée
Nationale de la Marine, Paris.
opposite: Detail from Tanneron’s
model of walnut, boxwood and
ebony.
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1SECTION ONE THE YEAR IN REVIEW
…no one should be excused
from seeing Les Génies de
la Mer. It is unlikely there
will be a more amazing
exhibition held anywhere
in Australia this year.
The craftsmanship that has
gone into these sculptures
that ornamented the ships of
the French navy…is simply
breathtaking…
John McDonald
Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald
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HIGHLIGHTS 2004–2005
Attracted 1,602,315 interactions
with the museum (including
411,340 museum visitors) and
raised $5.5 million gross revenue
Established American Friends of
ANMM to support the USA Gallery
Celebrated the return of the
Endeavour replica to Australia (left),
to make her home at the ANMM
Brought Les Génies de la Mer
– Masterpieces of French Naval
Sculpture from Paris to Australia
– a spectacular display of artworks
spanning 1660 to 1860 (left)
Designed and installed About
Time (left) which drew on major
international collections of historical
timepieces and chronometers
Opened Blackmores First Lady
and an installation of Kay Cottee’s
shipboard effects to the public
(above)
Hosted the third Australian visit of
the steel-hulled yachts of the Global
Challenge round-the-world race
Unveiled three new Welcome Wall
panels (above), with a total of 1,119
names, one ceremony coinciding
with Refugee Week and another
with the Greek Festival
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Provided 12 grants worth a total
of $30,000 under the Maritime
Museums of Australia Project
Support Scheme (MMAPSS) and
two regional museums internships
Organised and led a unique history
and culture tour of the coasts
of southern India, marketed to
museum Members and the public
(above)
Added 1,708 items to the
Australian National Maritime
Collection
Implemented Phase I of Australian
Register of Historic Vessels
Produced an Indigenous protocols
document, developed by a working
party with the aim of raising
awareness of Indigenous issues in
programs and procedures
Completed a disability action plan
Congratulated museum apprentice
shipwright Manny Ariel on winning
the NSW Medal for best shipwright
apprentice of the year
Supported maritime archaeological
programs (right) of various
organisations including the NSW
Heritage Offi ce
THE YEAR IN REVIEW | HIGHLIGHTS 2004–2005
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Interactions, visits and visitor profi le
The number of people who visited our exhibitions and historic vessels, and took tours
of the Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre this year, was 411,340. If we compare this
with visitation just two years ago, it’s an increase of nearly 40%. School visitors this
year totalled a pleasing 34,897. Some 40,500 guests or clients attended functions
held at the museum as part of our venue hire operation, while 3,145 museum
Members attended events organised for them. Overall for the year 2004–2005
there were 1,616,015 interactions with the museum. This is our measure of all who
availed themselves of our services and facilities in one way or another. In addition to
the visitations already noted, this includes categories such as enquiries assisted and
users of our research and information services.
Free admission
The museum’s Council has endorsed the continuation of our initiative of making entry
to the museum galleries free of charge. When we decided to trial free entry in late
2003 we were the fi rst of Sydney’s major museums to do so. The initiative was to make
our exhibitions more accessible than ever before, and it has worked. Over the initial
trial period we saw a substantial increase in our visitation over a comparable period in
the previous year, and the numbers have remained encouraging.
The challenge for us was always to ensure that the loss of ticket revenue was offset by
increased patronage of our other facilities, and ticketed attractions such as the replica
of HM Bark Endeavour, by those larger numbers of visitors, so we could continue to
provide the full range of attractions and services that our public expects of us. Our
confi dence that we will be able to do so is refl ected in Council’s decision to approve
free entry as a continuing feature of the museum. Australian maritime history will be
one of the benefi ciaries, as even more people come through our doors and learn about
our fascinating past and present.
DIRECTOR’S OVERVIEW
above: Director Mary-Louise
Williams with Minister for the Arts
and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp,
at the opening of Les Génies de
la Mer – Masterpieces of French
Naval Sculpture.
left: Detail from Napoleon I’s
ceremonial launch. Gilded lime
wood, Van Petersen, 1810.
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The Endeavour replica
One of the most signifi cant additions to the museum in many years took place, when
the internationally acclaimed replica of James Cook’s legendary Whitby collier, HM
Bark Endeavour, was transferred into the museum’s care. Endeavour will be based
here, managed and operated by our own staff, after more than a decade of world
voyaging. The ship had been operated by the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, created
in 1991 to complete construction in Fremantle WA, and to manage it as a voyaging
museum after it was launched in 1993. Senator the Hon Rod Kemp, Minister for the
Arts and Sport, received the replica on behalf of the Australian Government from the
Foundation’s chairman Dr Michael Sharpe AO, in order to gift it to the museum.
Managing Endeavour as a high-profi le heritage icon and an exceptional educational
asset, and maintaining the replica in sailing survey, is a huge commitment for the
museum. It takes us into operational areas previously outside our core business. We
commenced immediately by building a team comprising the most experienced square
rig and replica managers and shipkeepers to do the job. We have been generously
aided in this by additional annual funding from the Australian Government, which will
allow us to keep the ship in the best condition possible and to be fully operational on
Sydney Harbour. Long-distance offshore voyaging is extremely expensive and for that
we will seek corporate sponsorship, in order to extend the ship’s ambassadorial role.
Managing the Endeavour replica opens up many superb opportunities for the
museum. For many, many Australians Endeavour has an almost mystical status as a
symbol of the nation’s colonisation history; operating such an iconic ship demands of
us a sensitivity to all Australians’ view of history. As the new custodians of this vessel,
the eyes of Australia will be on us.
Exhibitions
It’s been a bumper year for exhibitions, which have been colourful and hugely diverse
in nature and style, as we strive to attract new and wider audiences.
The highlight of our year – some might say decade! – was the truly wonderful
exhibition Les Génies de la Mer – Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture.
THE YEAR IN REVIEW | DIRECTOR’S OVERVIEW
top: Endeavour replica moored
at Museum Quay, the museum’s
historic vessel basin.
above: Endeavour’s great cabin set
up in museum mode for visitors,
with replicas illustrating life as
it was when Cook, Banks and
Solander worked there during the
voyage.
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These magnifi cent sculptures, fi gureheads and other works of art decorated
French warships and vessels of state from 1660 to 1860. The artworks represent
a fascinating period and some of the most powerful and intriguing characters of
history, the likes of the Sun King (Louis XIV), Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon. Their
grand scale, epic subject matter, sensuous colour and forms have bowled over our
audiences.
The exhibition came about through a collaboration between the Musée National
de la Marine, Paris, owner of the sculptures, the Musée des beaux-arts du Québec
in Canada, and ourselves. It’s a great accolade for us that these French national
treasures were allowed to come here – they may never leave Paris again – and a
great satisfaction that our energy made it happen. It cements a closer alliance with
important French cultural institutions and has boosted our connections with the
French community in Australia too.
Special mention must be made of our sponsors SDV International Logistics, Cathay
Pacifi c Cargo and ANL Container Line Pty Ltd, since moving priceless items on this
scale is a gargantuan undertaking.
Other exhibition highlights of the year included:
About Time – a brief history of timekeeping on sea and land – drew on major
international collections of historical timepieces and chronometers, made possible by
our growing links to important overseas and Australian collections. Just one example:
the British National Maritime Museum lent its extraordinary working copy of the
Harrison 1 chronometer. The exhibition enjoyed the major support of sponsor IWC
International Watch Co Schaffhausen, the Swiss watchmaker.
Gina’s Journey – from Istria to Australia, a series of intensely personal paintings in a
vibrant style by 74-year-old Croatian migrant Gina Sinozich, captured her family’s 1957
voyage from Istria in Croatia to Australia. Most were commissioned by us from the self-
taught artist who has burst upon the gallery scene in recent years.
Sailor Style – Art Fashion Film continued its run until February, a cheeky and irreverent
history of the sailor suit and its place in popular culture.
above: Winged mermaid
fi gurehead in maritime pine,
from the sloop L’Australie, carver
unknown, 1844.
right: Louis XIV’s royal galley
La Réale, oil on canvas, artist
unknown, circa 1694. Both images
© Musée National de la Marine,
Paris
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Among the year’s other exhibition’s were Children of the Crocodile, an examination of
East Timor’s recent history and links with Australia; displays of works by documentary
photographers and Indigenous artists – and in an entirely new approach for us, an
exhibition of classic speedboat photographs selected from our collection by a guest
curator who bid for the privilege at a fundraising dinner held by our Australian National
Maritime Foundation!
We also saluted our founding Chairman who died late last year with Peter
Doyle AM, Fisherman (1932–2004), a display of personal effects in memory of the
contributions to this museum made by this legendary Sydney restaurateur and
environmentalist.
Staff overcame considerable logistical and conservation hurdles to realise a cherished
goal: making the famous yacht Blackmores First Lady accessible to visitors in our
Watermarks exhibition where it’s the centerpiece. They can now board, enter the cabin
and view an installation of Kay Cottee’s shipboard effects from the historic 1987-88
solo circumnavigation that made her Australia’s best-known sailor.
Travelling exhibitions
An additional 13,700 visitors to the South Australian Maritime Museum saw a
travelling exhibition, Siglas de Pescadores – Signs of fi shermen, which was nearing
the end of its Australian tour. We imported this appealing ethnographic study of an
Atlantic fi shing community in Portugal in mid-2003, and after appearing here for seven
months it travelled to venues all around Australia.
Since importing and touring exhibitions is an important but complex and demanding
part of our outreach activities, staff have this year developed a Temporary and
Travelling Exhibitions Production Guide for exhibitions developed, hosted and toured
by the museum.
Major events
For the third time we hosted the Australian visit of the steel-hulled yachts of the Global
Challenge round-the-world race which moored at our wharves, pausing during their
punishing circumnavigation which takes them the wrong way, against prevailing winds
and tides. The race was conceived of by the famous British yachtsman Sir Chay Blythe
as a character-building event for non-professional sailors, who are sponsored to sail
the fl eet of rugged, identical yachts.
One of the most popular museum events ever, Wetworld, returned this year over the
summer school holiday to encourage children to experiment with the many enjoyable
properties of water. This year, a new wet lab was added to increase the fun and
learning, with an emphasis on conservation and avoiding water wastage.
We unveiled three new Welcome Wall panels, with a total of 1,119 names cast in
bronze, on the museum’s tribute to migrants who have journeyed to Australia to make
new homes. The unveilings once again attracted thousands of family and friends of
Welcome Wall subscribers, one ceremony coinciding with Refugee Week and another
with a national festival celebrating Greek culture.
top: Gina Sinozich with one of her
paintings from Gina’s Journey
– from Istria to Australia
above: Estanislau da Silva
(centre), East Timor’s Minister for
Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries,
visited the exhibition Children of
the Crocodile – the Australia–East
Timor Story with son Sahe and
daughter Nairana
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Demonstrating the museum’s engagement with the wider Asian and Indian Ocean
region, a unique maritime-themed history and cultural tour of the coasts of southern
India was developed and marketed to museum Members and the public. The three-
week tour, led by a staff member who specialises in Asian maritime history, took in
spice ports of antiquity and colonial periods, contemporary fi shing communities and
traditional boatbuilding, and a host of littoral cultural sites.
Our seminar and lecture program is developing an impressive depth and diversity.
Many are commissioned to support current exhibitions – for example a seminar in
conjunction with the exhibition About Time which featured stellar academics Professor
Paul Davies, Peter Ekin and Professor Marilyn Mitchell. Others keep our audiences
up to date with developments in maritime history and related topics, with thought-
provoking and sometimes controversial topics such as Navy historian Dr Tom Frame’s
Anzac Day lecture ‘The Gallipoli campaign and HMAS Voyager: a tale of two tragedies’.
Still others refl ect our multidisciplinary approach, for example culinary academic
Dr Barbara Santich’s ‘Australian cuisine in the golden age of windjammers’, delivered
in the galley of the 1874 barque James Craig.
Collections
The National Maritime Collection’s profi le is growing among other Australian exhibiting
institutions, with a sharp rise in the number of items we have out on loan. Items were
on display in National Archives of Australia’s Beacons by the Sea travelling exhibition
and the Powerhouse Museum’s Sport more than heroes and legends travelling
exhibition. Others were on loan to the Supreme Court of Queensland for their Lucinda
exhibition, the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia to celebrate their centenary,
the South Australian Maritime Museum for their dolphin display and the National
Museum of Australia for their Encounters exhibition.
The number of objects registered in the National Maritime Collection this year was
1,708, among which were 95 groups or collections. The diversity of our collecting
activity never ceases to astound and entertain, as we acquired artworks and
photographs, ship models and surfboards, tools and instruments, books, stamps,
coins, programs, memorabilia, baleen, banners, textiles, ceramics, Olympians’ swim-
wear, cloth sailor dolls, a bottle of brandy that once belonged to Sir Francis Chichester,
a can of butter from Kay Cottee’s world voyage, and a whale penis fi tted as a lamp.
Several collection areas grew in strength, with a very strong showing of maritime art
and ship portraiture entering the collection. And we built on our extensive holdings
of material relating to Australia’s most famous boatbuilding dynasty, the Halvorsens,
with a collection of scrapbooks, plans and clothing relating to the ocean racing and
sporting interests of Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen, and drafting tools used by Trygve
and Lars Halvorsen. Among these plans of Halvorsen-designed and crewed yachts that
dominated Australian ocean racing in the post-WW2 period are those of the legendary
Freya, three-time winner of the Sydney–Hobart yacht race in 1963–65. A number of
these items will be displayed next year.top: Scrimshaw – Art of the Whaler
highlighted ANMM’s extensive
collection of these sailorly arts
and crafts.
above: Photograph, 1938, from
ANMM’s Sam Hood collection, in
the exhibition Sydney – Working
Harbour
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Partnerships and collaborations
Phase I of our Australian Register of Historic Vessels got underway with the
appointment of contract yacht designer and heritage vessel specialist, David Payne,
to develop a data base and methodologies, and to research and enter the fi rst tranche
of signifi cant vessels. The register will become an important national research tool
for maritime heritage and an outreach program extending the network of maritime
museums in this country.
We developed strategies for the offi cial launch and promotion of a new organisation,
American Friends of the Australian National Maritime Museum, which has been
incorporated to raise knowledge of and support for the museum’s USA Gallery.
The USA Gallery is the enduring product of a generous endowment which was the
United States’ bicentennial gift to Australia in 1988. American Friends will facilitate
fundraising and promotional activities, and has gained the support of Australian
diplomatic missions in the USA.
A museum working party produced and published an Indigenous protocols document,
with the aim of raising awareness of Indigenous issues as they impact upon museum
programs and procedures. Doing so enhanced our links with bodies such as the
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Australia Council, by taking their
own protocols as a starting point to develop specifi cs for material in our collection.
Producing this document is a strong statement that we will promote respectful
treatment of Indigenous materials, cultures and forms of expression.
Twelve grants worth a total of $30,000 were provided under the Maritime Museums
of Australia Project Support Scheme (MMAPSS) to non-profi t maritime museums
and historical societies, most of them community-based and run by volunteers, to
conserve and display their maritime heritage. Projects range from boat restorations
to conservation of exquisite artworks. The scheme was initiated in 1995 and since
then, 113 projects across all Australian states and most of its territories have been
supported. It’s our most important cultural outreach program, administered by us and
jointly funded by the museum and the Australian Government through the Distributed
National Collection Program of the Department of Communications, Information
top: Crown Princess Victoria of
Sweden visits the museum to
open the exhibition Swedish Style.
Photographer E Maloney/ANMM
above: ANMM Members whale-
watching off Sydney Heads
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Technology and the Arts. This year we secured a substantial increase in the Australian
Government’s contribution, which will enable us to more than double the number of
grants commencing with the 2005–2006 round of grants.
We also awarded two regional museums internships which allow people from smaller
museums who are managing maritime heritage collections to spend up to four weeks
with our staff, developing skills. This year’s interns were Ray Robinson from the Port
Broughton Sailing and Boat Club Inc of South Australia, and Marie Nunan, a volunteer
from the Geelong Heritage Centre in Victoria.
A second staff exchange was undertaken with the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, UK. This important program develops relations with what is arguably the
world’s pre-eminent maritime museum – certainly one with critical strategic links to
Australian maritime history. Dominic Mackintosh, ANMM marketing services manager,
spent two months with the Greenwich museum’s marketing arm. Liz Campbell, a display
technician at Greenwich, spent six weeks with our exhibition designers and preparators.
Trained underwater archaeologists and divers on staff contributed to the maritime
archaeology programs of various organisations including the NSW Heritage Offi ce.
Our involvement in the search for remains of James Cook’s Endeavour continues, in
Newport, Rhode Island, in the USA. This year Nigel Erskine, ANMM’s new curator of
exploration and acting senior maritime archaeologist, was sent to assist the Rhode
Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP, led by American archaeologist Dr Kathy
Abbass) with its underwater surveys and test excavations.
I was recently invited to join the board of the Foundation for the Preservation of
Captain Cook’s Ships, a US organisation which provides administrative and fund-
raising support for RIMAP’s work. We’re happy to be working with the Foundation and
RIMAP to establish a strategic approach for our forthcoming involvement with the
wreck site. It’s a project of great signifi cance to us all.
I have been appointed acting President of the International Congress of Maritime
Museums, continuing this museum’s tradition of close involvement with, and
executive membership of, this world body which does important work on standards
and policies that relate to our discipline.
above: In the Navy exhibition.
right: Director Mary-Louise
Williams welcomes the Endeavour
replica. Behind (L to R): ship’s
former master, Chris Blake;
Minister for the Arts and Sport,
Senator Rod Kemp; chairman
of the HM Bark Endeavour
Foundation, Dr Michael Sharpe AO.
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Issues and outlook
Our continuation of free museum entry is a keystone of our marketing that now
positions us to maximise our audience share. With the right mix of attractions we’re
confi dent that we can do this, and resist the now well-documented, worldwide decline
in museum audiences.
Sailing over our horizon is the long-awaited Vikings exhibition, to open in November
2005 ready for the summer crowds. Treasures of the Viking world, artefacts and
replicas, have been sourced from great European collections, to dig beneath the
legend and myth and reveal the truth about these incredible navigators, explorers,
warriors, traders and artists. Next year we’ll also open Dreamboats and workboats
– the Halvorsen story. It showcases our extensive collection documenting the lives
and work of this Norwegian migrant family which became a household name with their
popular Hawkesbury hire fl eet and fi nely crafted vessels.
Work on several long-term projects which will improve our infrastructure and services
made excellent progress during the year. The very complex task of developing the new,
state-of-the-art Collection Management Information System neared completion. We
began planning for the redevelopment of the Commerce exhibition theme, and we
selected a consultant and tenderer to redevelop the museum website, among other
things to align it more closely with our business process.
And we continued the ongoing process of developing the comprehensive site
masterplan, to provide for future growth and to grapple with the challenges posed
by our site and the wider precinct. Our neighbourhood gets busier and busier as the
rapid development of Pyrmont and Darling Harbour continues, with a number of major
construction projects underway that will increase residential and commercial activity
on our doorstep. Closer to home we face the demands of maintaining an 18-year-old
building and wharfage which needs upgrading. Our attention is now focusing on the
building’s eastern façade and how it can be redeveloped to provide better public
amenities and facilities.
While we have an outstanding track record in importing and touring exceptional
international exhibitions – part of our role as the nation’s leading maritime heritage
organisation – one constant hurdle that we face is the rarity of suitable, major
exhibitions with universal appeal. Another is the escalating costs of moving exhibition
material and obtaining insurance coverage, exacerbated by international security
concerns and procedures.
Along with increased costs of our own security operations, we share with many
organisations a growing list of compliance issues from governance to occupational
health and safety, risk management, equity and access, on-line standards and
copyright compliances. Working in the Australian Government sector, the standards
and consequently costs of compliance are high, accompanied by increasing needs to
monitor developments and make submissions.top: Staff organised their own
viewing of the 2004 transit of
Venus, 235 years after Cook
observed a transit in Tahiti
above: Entertainers at a
Caribbean-themed corporate event
held at the museum.
Photographer L Faye/ANMM
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EXHIBITIONS AND
MAJOR EVENTS
Sydney – Working Harbour
Sydney’s working harbour has a major
role in Australian industry, trade,
national profi le and tourism. The
exhibition showed how developers and
governments are making changes to
this working harbour. Included were
photographs from the museum’s
outstanding collection of Sam Hood’s
work – a fi ne record of ships, seamen,
work on the wharves and leisure boating.
Sponsored by Sydney Ports Corporation
Coordinator Daina Fletcher
Curator Shar Jones
Designers Adrienne Kabos
Eszter Matheson
South Gallery
24 September 2003–18 July 2004
Visitors 354,683
Sailor Style – Art Fashion Film
From the manliness of Jack Tar to the
sauciness of ‘hello sailor!’, the sailor
suit has always seduced. This cheeky,
fl amboyant and theatrical exhibition
traced the evolution in nautical wear
from around 1748 when it was purely
functional, to its fashionable and
fetishised forms, exploring ‘sailor style’
as a contemporary cultural phenomenon
and celebrating the iconic sailor suit and
its infl uence on popular culture.
Coordinator Mariea Fisher
Curator Rosie Nice
Designers Johanna Nettleton
Daniel Ormella
Nortel Networks Gallery
3 June 2004–20 February 2005
Visitors 202,784
below: Tug Heroic and Queen Mary,
1942, Sam Hood photograph,
ANMM collection.
below right: Greta Garbo 1929,
courtesy Austral Press
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NAIDOC 2004
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people’s work from the museum
collection went on display to celebrate
NAIDOC Week and the theme of Self-
determination – Our Community – Our
Future – Our Responsibility. NAIDOC
is the National Aboriginal Islander Day
Observance Committee.
Coordinator Bliss Jensen
Curator John Waight
Designer Adrienne Kabos
Tasman Light
30 June–12 September 2004
Visitors 86,198
Refugee Women – Heroines and
Survivors of War
Featuring the striking images of several
noted Australian photographers of
international confl ict, this exhibition
focused on the special problems faced by
refugee women and their children.
Coordinator Bliss Jensen
Curator Lindl Lawton
Designer Adrienne Kabos
Tasman Light
23 September–5 December 2004
Visitors 57,341
Aquatic Paralympians 2004
Photographs by Robert Prezioso, offi cial
photographer to the 2004 Australian
Paralympic team of Australian swimmers
competing at the Athens 2004
Paralympic Games. The exhibition was
held in conjunction with International Day
of People with a DisAbility to celebrate
the achievements and athleticism of the
swimmers.
Coordinator Bliss Jensen
Curator Penny Cuthbert
Designer Adrienne Kabos
Tasman Light
2 December 2004–13 February 2005
Visitors 103,381top: The Crossing, Nauru 2001,
Renee Nowytarger, courtesy of the
photographer and The Australian
left: Victory is sweet, 2004,
paralympian Ben Austen by Robert
Prezioso.
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Wetworld
One of the most popular museum events
ever, Wetworld returned this year to
encourage children to experiment with
the many enjoyable properties of water.
This year, a new wet lab was added to
increase the fun and learning.
North Wharf
27 December 2004–25 January 2005
Visitors 29,213
About Time
The quest to determine longitude and the
development of the marine chronometer
were important components of this
exhibition about the ways humans have
sought to measure and control time. A
brilliant display of historic, contemporary
and eccentric timepieces traced the
development of timepiece technology
and its impact on our lives.
Sponsored by IWC Schaffhausen
Coordinators Lindsey Shaw
Michelle Linder
Curators Bliss Jensen
Nigel Erskine
Designer Carola Salazar
South Gallery
28 September 2004–6 March 2005
Visitors 168,012
Peter Doyle AM, Fisherman
(1932–2004)
Peter Doyle, fi sherman, restaurateur
and founding chairman of the Australian
National Maritime Museum, died on
12 December 2004. He was saluted with
a small display of eloquent reminders of
his fl amboyant but down-to-earth life.
Entry ramp
17 January–27 June 2005
Visitors 188,539
Gina’s Journey – from Istria to
Australia
A series of intensely personal paintings
in a vibrant naïve style by 74-year-old
Croatian migrant Gina Sinozich captured
the Sinozich family’s 1957 journey
aboard the Neptunia from Istria in
Croatia to Australia. Most of the paintings
on display were commissioned from the
artist by the museum.
Coordinator Bliss Jensen
Curator Lindl Lawton
Designer Adrienne Kabos
Tasman Light
15 February–May 2005
Visitors 82,126
above right: Cross section of the
vessel Neptunia, Gina Sinozitch, oil
on board, 2001
right: Reproduction of Harrison 1
chronometer, lent by National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich UK.
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Les Génies de la Mer
– Masterpieces of French Naval
Sculpture
A co-production between the Musée
National de la Marine, Paris, and the
Musée des beaux-arts du Québec,
Canada, this was a stunning selection of
wooden sculptures that adorned ships
of the French Navy as well as vessels of
state from 1660 to 1860. The carved
fi gureheads and other sculptures from
the workshops of the French dockyards
were presented as works of art, and
not just as documentary elements
of shipbuilding. Also on display were
paintings, prints, drawings and models
which enlarge our understanding of this
important period.
Sponsored by SDV International
Logistics, Cathay Pacifi c Cargo and ANL
Container Line Pty Ltd
Coordinator Mariea Fisher
Curators Marjolaine Mourot
Mario Beland
Daina Fletcher
Designers David Gaucher
Tanguy le Moing
Daniel Ormella
Nortel Networks and North Galleries
7 April–9 October 2005
Visitors 72,820 (to 30 June 2005)
Speed and Grace – Classic
Wooden Speedboats
The exhibition was curated by David
Thompson, successful bidder at the
Australian Maritime Foundation auction
in 2004. The reproduced archive
photographs and glass plate negatives
from ANMM’s collection presented
images that evoked speedboats’ sense of
style and pursuit of speed.
Coordinator Bliss Jensen
Curator David Thompson
Designer Adrienne Kabos
Tasman Light
18 May–3 July 2005
Visitors 35,170
THE YEAR IN REVIEW | EXHIBITIONS AND MAJOR EVENTS
As the king’s formidable
fl eet trawled the oceans
on the way to war, these
ostentatious sculptures
symbolised the might and
majesty of the French navy…
Gary Smith
The Daily Telegraph
far left: Assemblage of fi gureheads
below: Henri IV, fi gurehead from
ship Le Henri IV, stripped Swiss
stone pine, anonymous carver,
Cherbourg dockyard, 1848. Both
images © Musée National de la
Marine, Paris
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Global Challenge
The museum hosted a spectacular fl eet
of 12 Global Challenge ocean-racing
yachts stopping over in Sydney as they
raced from east to west around the world,
against the prevailing winds.
It was the third time this race had made
the museum its Sydney stopover.
Festival pontoon
11 February–27 February 2005
Sail Expo and Classic & Working
Boat Challenge 2005
In a Sydney Harbour Week celebration,
the museum displayed over 30 state-of-
the-art yachts and graceful old sailing
boats – the classic and contemporary
side-by-side. The traditional Classic
Working Boat Challenge was hosted from
the museum on Sunday 6 March.
Museum Quay,
Festival Pontoon
5–6 March 2005
RV Southern Surveyor
The CSIRO research vessel is used
by marine scientists to explore and
study Australia’s oceans. In the ship’s
laboratories the chemistry of sea water
is analysed, the ocean fl oor mapped and
fi sh populations acoustically tracked.
Special tours of the visiting vessel and
other events were organized by our visitor
services, schools and Members sections.
North Wharf
16–30 August 2004
Visitors 13,329
ON THE WATER
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Replica of HM Bark Endeavour
On 17 April 2005 Sydney welcomed
the replica of James Cook’s Endeavour
back to her home port, and the HM Bark
Endeavour Foundation handed the ship
over to the Australian Government. The
magnifi cent replica of this famous vessel
of discovery, on which Cook made his
fi rst circumnavigation (1769–71), is now
on display at the museum’s south wharf,
where visitors can see and understand
the life of an 18th-century sailor.
THE YEAR IN REVIEW | ON THE WATER
James Craig
Sydney Heritage Fleet’s magnifi cent
1874 barque James Craig was
recommissioned in 2000 after her epic
30-year restoration and is sailing again
– one of only four such barques in the
world that are still sailing.
Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre
Visitors 98,325
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STATUTORY INFORMATION
REQUIREMENTS
Assessment of effectiveness in managing human
resources
In addition to the three items below, ‘Human resource
management and OHS’ in Section 2, Key Result Area 3
– Infrastructure Development (page 48 ff).
Joint consultative council
The museum’s joint consultative council comprising
the director, assistant director corporate services, the
human resources manager and three elected staff
representatives met four times this year. The council
discusses a wide range of issues including fi nancial
and human resource planning, workplace diversity,
occupational health and safety, and work and organisa-
tion structures.
Occupational health and safety
See page 49 under ‘Human resource management and
OHS’ in Section 2, Key Result Area 3.
Workplace diversity
A workplace diversity policy was endorsed by the
museum executive and distributed to all staff in
2003–04; its implementation has continued
throughout the past year. For 2004–05 staff
breakdown by gender see table under the heading
‘Human resource management and OHS’ in Section
2, Key Result Area 3 – Infrastructure Development
(page 50).
Access & equity
In line with the Charter for Public Service in a Culturally
Diverse Society the museum creates programs and
products that refl ect the diversity of Australian society.
Commonwealth disability strategy
The museum provides facilities to help disabled people
to access its programs, exhibitions and publications.
The disability action plan
The Workplace Diversity Committee developed a
disability action plan in 2003–04 with an external
consultant, together with performance measures, in
accordance with the Commonwealth Disability Strategy.
A number of targets in this plan were met in 2004–05.
See ‘Disability action plan’ (page 50).
Environmental performance
Management of energy consumption, for which the
museum has won awards in the past, was ongoing, and
signifi cant energy savings are expected to be made
over the next reporting period. The museum’s property
services section is responsible for these and other
issues of improved performance such as targeted
waste disposal.
Insurance & indemnity
Comcover provides professional indemnity cover in
accordance with statutory requirements. Liability cover
is provided for the director and staff.
Risk management
In order to develop a risk-management policy and plan,
the museum has taken advantage of Comcover’s offer
of assistance in risk management and commenced
work with them to establish a schedule of production
and scale of work. Preliminary sessions were convened
with managers from across the museum to identify,
assess and grade risks.
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opposite: The Members Lounge,
sponsored by Freedom Group.
above: Triton blowing in a conch,
stern ornament from La Réale
Gilded walnut, attributed to
François Caravaque, Marseilles
dockyard, 1694. © Musée National
de la Marine, Paris
Developments in external scrutiny
There were no developments in external scrutiny.
Reports by the Auditor General
None undertaken during the period other than for
fi nancial statements.
Fraud control
The museum is developing a fraud control plan with
appropriate fraud prevention, detection, investigation,
reporting and data collection procedures and processes
to meet the specifi c needs of the museum and the
Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines 2002.
Freedom of information
There was one request under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982. The request was granted.
The museum’s FOI offi cer is Russell Smylie,
tel 02 9298 3619 email rsmylie@anmm.gov.au.
Judicial decisions
No judicial decisions affected the museum during the
period under report.
Ministerial directions
There were no new ministerial directions made under
Section 28 of the Commonwealth Authorities and
Corporations Act.
Advertising & market research
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05
Advertising agency $91,259 $82,028 $87,394
Market research organisations $13,636 $0 $9,640
Direct mail $763 $505 $402
Corporate governance
The museum council met six times during the year.
Council business is facilitated through fi ve committees
(Finance & Audit; Major Capital Works; Collections
Development and Exhibitions; Marketing, Programs
& Sponsorship; and Fleet) which generally meet in
advance of each full council meeting and additionally
if required. The committees are charged with provid-
ing specifi c advice to council and management. Each
committee comprises the director and a minimum
of two other councilors, one of whom acts as chair.
All councillors are welcome to attend any committee
meeting in an ex-offi cio capacity (refer Appendix 14).
Triennial strategic plans and annual operating plans
are prepared in accordance with the Act. Section 2 of
this report outlines performance against the current
2003–2006 Strategic Plan. The chairman and the
director have biannual meetings with the Minister to
review governance and strategic issues.
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