Discover the Sextant used by Captain James Cook on his third Pacific voyage that is from the British National Maritime Museum, London, UK.
Discover the Secret Instructions in a letterbook to Lieutenant James Cook, dated 1768.
Discover the Endeavour cannon, thrown overboard when Cook’s ship struck a coral reef.
Discover the Race to the Australian Goldfields board game c.1850s where travellers race to get bags of gold – or fail in the Australian gold rush.
See the bugle that Japanese prisoner of war TOYOSHIMA HAJIME used to signal the start of the mass escape of Japanese POWs from Cowra POW Camp in 1944.
Discover the portrait miniature of Eber Bunker c.1810 founder of the NSW Colonial whaling and livestock industries and builder of Collingwood House at Liverpool.
Discover the brass button from the work clothes of a convict assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company at Newcastle in the 1830s.
Discover the long sleeved woollen convict jacket made of ‘Parramatta cloth’, c.1830s-1840s.
Discover the Convict Cap dated 1852, the year convict transportation ended on the east coast of Australia.
