| Address | 97 Lincoln Highway,
Port Lincoln
South Australia, 5606, Australia | | Enquiries : | Send an enquiry to Axel Stenross Maritime Museum Inc | | Telephone Enquiries : | 08-8682 3624 |
Visit a classic 'bloke's shed' museum. Axel Stenross made boats and the museum celebrates him and the rich maritime history of Port Lincoln.
This is one of South Australia's most distinctive museums. It is an historic house but it is not the grand home of a rich landowner. Finnish-born Axel Stenross lived humbly in his corrugated iron complex. You can see, for example, where some walls are made from tea chests. It is still an operating slip-yard where small craft are cleaned and painted in among a number of historic vessels now at their final home.
Axel's home is simple but the museum is 21st century in other ways. If you want to know about the many vessels which came to Port Lincoln - often as part of the great grain trade between South Australia and Europe – you can find what you need on touchscreens. The place is a Mecca for people from Scandinavia who say they can find out more about their own sailing history in Port Lincoln than they can at home, and what visitors won't find out on their own, they will find out from an extremely knowledgeable and helpful team of volunteers for whom the museum has long been a labour of love.
Smell the sea and listen to the waves lapping not far from where you stand in the museum.
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| Activity | Self-Guided. | | Entity Facility | Access With Assistance for the Disabled, Car park, Coach Parking, First aid equipment, Interactive Centre, Interpretive Centre, Parking for the Disabled, Public Telephone, Public Toilet, Telephone for the Disabled, Toilet facilities for the Disabled, Viewing Platform, Walking Tracks. | | Experience | Beach, Historic/Heritage, Marine. |
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