This January, the Endeavour will sail from its home at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney to Hobart to celebrate the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. As a proud partner of Festival, the Museum is thrilled to be participating by sailing Endeavour to Hobart for Australia's largest gathering of wooden boat enthusiasts.
Designed to operate as a travelling exhibition which acknowledges the role played by explorer and navigator James Cook in the mapping of the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and many parts of the Pacific, the Endeavour will join 10 other tall ships at the Pacifica themed festival from February 7-10.
Crew from around the world will set sail on Endeavour from Sydney to Hobart and use this visit to talk about Pacific collections held by Australian cultural institutions, Indigenous watercraft, the exploration of the Pacific by Europeans in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and the role of such vessels in expanding scientific knowledge.
