Engaging audiences of all ages at the Australian National Maritime Museum; Image supplied
What do you do when everything you have stood for – your world as you thought it existed – changes?
This is what many maritime museums globally are facing. As Kevin Sumption, Director & CEO, Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), described to a room of museum professionals, three years of research ‘told us there wasn’t a lot of interest in most maritime museums … the maritime museum as a notion is a 19th Century concept.’
