This engaging museum tells of Jervis Bay's shipbuilding past and Aboriginal history. Interesting displays explain the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community's struggle for land rights. Back rooms are filled with imagination-firing maritime miscellany like brine-splashed wooden chests and ship figureheads. The gardens, laid out like an old ship-building yard, are fun to ramble.
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
South Coast NSW
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