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224th Anniversary of the Wrecking of H.M.S. Sirius
Midday Wednesday 19th March was the 224th anniversary of the wrecking of HMS Sirius on Norfolk Island. It was in 1790 that the disastrous wrecking of the flagship of the First Fleet occurred, leaving...
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Protecting the H.M.S. Sirius Wrecksite and her Artefacts
Last week we celebrated the 224th anniversary of the wrecking of the flagship of the First Fleet, H.M.S. Sirius on the reef at Slaughter Bay. Her role as the flagship places her as Australia’s most...
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An Adventure of a Lifetime...
...a feeling of going home to where it all began.These are the words of our very own Millie Walden of Norfolk Island as she reflects on her recent visit to Pitcairn Island. A group of 10 people have...
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New Acquisitions
Every time a visitor purchases a ticket to see the museum’s historical play, “The Trial of the Fifteen” they unwittingly support many areas of museum activity. Thanks to an Agreement originally...
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Bishop Patteson's "South Sea Island Labour Traffic" Memorandum
By Janelle BlucherThe Norfolk Island Museum Trust has recently purchased additional shelving and a filing cabinet to properly house the books and files donated to the Museum by Paul Bowes from the...
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New Museum Acquisition - convict made chest of drawers
The Norfolk Island Museum Trust recently purchased a convict made chest of drawers that had been locally put up for tender. Made of Norfolk Island Pine it is stamped BO ↑ CD. The BO is for the Board of...
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Island Education and Norf'k language
Norfolk Island school girls and teachers in 1896Over the last few weeks a number of school groups have been in and out of the museum and we have also met with Prof. Peter Muhlhausler on a recent trip,...
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A Conservation Story
Janelle Blucher is responsible for the conservation of our museum artefacts and each week works on a range of objects. Over past weeks she has been working on a beautiful but very fragile copper bust...
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A Very 'Sirius' Anniversary
The 19th of March next year will be the 225th anniversary of the wrecking of HMS Sirius on the reef at Norfolk Island. Her wrecking was undoubtedly the most serious event to occur during the early life...
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The Lost Little Boy...
This post is written by Museum Guide Racheal McConnell.If you have ever been down to the "Mission" valley and taken in the surrounds it can almost pass as a rustic scene straight from a Jane Austin...
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Cartoons and Souvenirs from WWII
Upstairs in the Pier Store Museum is a small display on WWII. Alongside a strip of the Marsden matting used to make the airstrip (and now found around the island in many front fences and pig sty’s) are...
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H.M.S. Sirius Museum Officially Open
Lisle Snell MLA Chief Misinter and His Honour The Administrator Neil PopeWith the joint cutting of a cake by His Honour the Administrator Neil Pope and Lisle Snell Chief Minister, Norfolk’s newest...
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The First Maori Map
Norfolk Island’s history is really quite amazing. There are so many ‘firsts’ and unique stories that emerge from this little rock, 3 miles by 5 miles, and thousands of kilometers from the mainland. One...
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A Mystery Ship
The mammoth job of cataloguing all of Les Brown’s papers and photographs has brought forth some very interesting items. A lone, fairly poor quality photograph of a line drawing of a ship with three...
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What is the story of this object?
One of the delights of working at the Norfolk Island Museum is that we get to immerse ourselves in Norfolk’s never-ending stories that range from the time of Polynesian settlement, through two penal...
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I named it Norfolk Isle...
James Cook recorded his discovery of Norfolk Island on 10 October 1774, his journal claims possession and naming of it on 11 October 1774, that is 240 years ago.In July 1772 theResolution, commanded by...
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Thomas Rossiter donation
The museum received a generous donation this week from Peter Rossiter, great-grandson of Thomas Rossiter. In 1859 Thomas was the first ‘outsider’ to be appointed on Norfolk Island by Governor Denison...
View ArticleCelebrating our 1788 Beginnings
Foundation Day this year was a fabulous celebration of the beginnings of our Island’s first British Settlement on the 6th March 1788. The day is important to celebrate as Norfolk Island’s significance...
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A Shipwreck Story
Many significant shipwrecks have occurred around our island and all are worthy of investigation. There is much information known and recorded about the HMS Sirius and her wrecking on the reef off...
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HMS Sirius, Mosman and NICS
Close to 200 visitors are arriving on Norfolk over this weekend to join in the events planned to commemorate the 225thanniversary of the wrecking of HMS Siriusat Slaughter Bay on the 19th March 1790....
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