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Welcome to the Lady Denman Heritage Complex
LATEST NEWS
Maritime Art Free Viewing for International Museums Day, Sunday 20th May
Visitors to the Lady Denman Maritime Museum on Sunday 20th May will have the opportunity to view a fabulous exhibition of marine art free of charge just before it closes. All paintings in the exhibition are by Members of the Australian Society of Marine Artists, which includes Australia's leading painters of nautical subjects.
The Lady Denman is offering the free entry to celebrate International Museums Day. Visitors will also have free access to the Lady Denman ferry and the entire museum collection.
VERA HATTON (AM)
On Thursday 10th May, Vera Hatton was presented with her AM medals by the Governor, Marie Bashir, at Parliament House, Sydney - with 16 members of her family in attendance, including her brother.
The text of the Awards Programme read ...
"Mrs Vera Lillian Hatton - for service to the museums sector through the Lady Denman Heritage Complex, and as a supporter of youth, social welfare and historical organisations in the Shoalhaven region."
Congratulations Vera!
ABOUT THE LADY DENMAN
The establishment of the Lady Denman Heritage Complex (also known as the Lady Denman Maritime Museum) was inspired by the Lady Denman ferry, built in Huskisson in 1911 and now housed in a purpose-built facility within the Complex. The ferry is now listed as an item of NSW State Heritage significance.
The Heritage Complex houses a Surveyor's Gallery with its world-standard collection of surveying instruments, the Jervis Bay Gallery of Science and the Sea which contains many diverse treasures, and the Local History Gallery - which uses interpretive panels, audio-visual content and a wide range of unique and valuable objects to explore local history, much of it on maritime themes.
There is also a marine environment gallery and a large gallery which hosts a variety of home-grown and travelling exhibitions from far and wide.
The Complex occupies a 10 hectare bushland and wetland site on the shores of Jervis Bay and Currambene Creek that includes a number of diverse natural environments.
The Fish Pond is very popular with visitors and is home to a number of fish species including Tailor, Snapper, Kingfish, Bream, Mullet, Flathead, Flounder and Stingrays.
The Mangrove Boardwalk takes visitors through the mangroves on a raised boardwalk out to the margins of Currambene Creek, and seeks to impart an understanding of wetlands, mangrove swamps and the interaction between ocean and land environments.
The native gardens incorporate the Wirreecoo Wildflower Garden and the Keith Moore Habitat Garden. The design of the Habitat Garden was based on the topography of Jervis Bay, with various features echoing actual locations like Huskisson, Bowen Island and Point Perpendicular. Both gardens display the diversity of flora in the area.
Alf Settree's Boatshed holds the small boat Ninon and an example of an unfinished boat under construction. The boatshed overlooks the Fish Pond. A nearby outdoor pavilion is available for hire for functions, and there are a number of picnic tables throughout the grounds.
In addition, we have a Museum Shop, a Conference Room that is available for hire, an outdoor Pavilion containing electric BBQs and bench seating that is also available for hire, an Historic Church that can be hired for weddings and other religious services, and Historic Classrooms from the old St Georges Basin Public School that are also available for hire.
Monthly Markets are held in the grounds of the Lady Denman Heritage Complex on the first Saturday of every month, and we also have monthly Blues Nights on the third Saturday of each month.
There is also an Aboriginal Arts and Crafts shop at the Lady Denman Heritage Complex.
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Lady Denman Heritage Complex
Open: 10am - 4pm daily
Phone: (02) 4441-5675
