Lady Denman Heritage Complex - Huskisson
Address: Dent Street & Woollamia Road
Huskisson, NSW 2540
The Lady Denman Heritage Complex is located on 10 hectares and houses a Museum with significant maritime history, Laddie Timbery's Aboriginal Arts and Crafts, the Museum shop and a vast outdoor recreation space including a boardwalk, fish feeding harbour, and historic buildings.
The centrepiece is the Lady Denman - a wooden Inner Harbour Sydney ferry built in Huskisson in 1911 and retired in 1979. She was returned home in 1980, and now rests in a purpose built building to receive her many visitors.
Other museum exhibits include:
Shipbuilding, shipwrecks and lighthouses as well as the magnificent Halloran Collection housing rare and beautiful surveying/navigational instruments, weapons, artworks and historic maritime artefacts of world significance.
Koori Coast: the story of the Shoalhaven Aboriginal people.
Jervis Bay: the history of Jervis Bay from 1800 to 1939.
The Vera Hatton Gallery which hosts travelling exhibitions from far and wide.
Opening times
Open 10am to 4pm daily Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Contact
- Contact Information
- www.ladydenman.asn.au
- Dent Street & Woollamia Road
Huskisson, NSW 2540 - Phone: (02) 4441 5675
- Fax: (02) 4441 7688
- ladydenman@shoalhaven.net.au
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