Australian Wooden Boat Festival (Hobart)
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The Australian National Maritime Museum is taking part in the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the country’s largest celebration of wooden vessels, in Hobart from February 7 to 10 2025. The Endeavour is sailing down as part of the 2025 Festival’s Pasifka theme.
The Pasifika theme provides an opportunity for the museum to enhance the historical and contemporary narrative around the Endeavour and Cook’s first voyage between 1768-1771. Cook was on a scientific expedition to plot the Transit of Venus and on his return, he mapped and explored much of what we now know as New Zealand and also the eastern coastline of this continent. His observations provided information used to determine the sending of the First Fleet and the establishment of a colony in 1788.
The festival provides a platform for the museum to talk about the dual perspectives of our nation’s history – the view from the ship and the view from the shore. It also enables the museum to showcase the extraordinary workmanship of the Fremantle built replica to the wooden boat community as well as provide an opportunity for tall ship enthusiasts to sail.
Attending the Festival?
Come on board the top deck of the Endeavour for $5 per person to learn about the vessel and Cook's role in the Pacific. Hear First Nations viewpoints, and see an instillation of fibreglass turtle shells painted by Indigenous artist Gail Mabo.
You can also see Endeavour as part of the Parade of Sail, learn more at Australian National Maritime Museum Wooden Boat Symposium and meet museum staff at many other events during the packed program.
