Australian Sailing Museum
The Australian Sailing Museum is in Mandurah, Western Australia.
The Museum closed December 2012.
Owned and built by Rolly Tasker, the Australian Sailing Museum [1] [1] exhibits a comprehensive display of yacht models, the history of Australian sailing, and sailors, from the 19th century. It has maritime artworks, lifelike wax figures of sailing icons (a saluting Dennis Conner, John Cox Stevens, Sir Thomas Lipton & more), while the main exhibition area is circled with pennants from clubs around the world. The Museum also houses the Peninsula Art Gallery that sells prints, the Boardwalk coffee shop and Rolly Tasker Sails Australia which offers sails made by Rolly.
The opening address on Monday 7 April 2008 was made by Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia [2]
The Governor-General opened the museum on Rolly and Kerry Tasker’s behalf.[2]
The Museum houses an extensive array of built-to-scale model yachts in glass cases. The models are representative of most of the Australian and many international classes of yachts. The Australian sailing and Olympic sailing champions' achievements are listed. Wax figures circle the centre of the Museum while sailing history in text and pictures line the walls.
Has been listed as a 2009 WA Tourism Awards Finalist [3] [3]
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Earl of Dunraven.jpg
Very lifelike model of the Earl of Dunraven
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Interior Displays.jpg
Interior display of Australian Sailing Museum
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Earl of Wilton.jpg
Model of the Earl of Wilton
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Display model of HMS Victory.jpg
HMS Victory model
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Sir Thomas Lipton.jpg
Sir Thomas Lipton
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Interior Wall display.jpg
Interior wall display
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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.jpg
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
References
- ↑ Australian Sailing Museum
- ↑ Address by his Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on the occasion of open Rolly and Kerry Tasker’s Australian Sailing Museum Mandurah, WA 7 April 2008
- ↑ 2009 WA Tourism Awards Finalist
External links
- [4] Australian Sailing Museum
- [5] Museum Register
- [6] Mandurah Mail article on Museum opening
- [7] Sail World article on the Australian Sailing Museum
- [8] Experience Perth
- [9] Tourism Australia Attractions
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