Monday - Friday: 10.00am to 04.30pm Saturday - Sunday 12.30 pm to 4.30pm
The Bluff Maritime Musuem has a small entry fee of $5 per adult and $1 per child
241 Foreshore Road Bluff, New Zealand 9842
The Bluff Maritime Museum is home to an extensive collection of models, boats, displays, photographs and a working triple expansion engine. Housed in the former Awarua Boating shed, the Maritime museum offers a unique collection, which is displayed to both stimulate visitor's interest and give an insight and understanding of the rich maritime history of the area.
The museums biggest attraction is the oystering boat the Monica. Here you are able to take command of the wheel in the wheel house, go down below and sit at the mess room table.
The deep sea diving outfit consist of a rubber and canvas suit, a helmet, a breast plate, shoes and additional weights.
Fiordland Crested Penguin ( Tawaki ) Eudyptes Pachyrhynchus lives around the coast of the South Westland Fiordland, southland, Otago and Stewart Island.
HM Cutter Mermaid 1823 she sailed from Sydney to Bluff to obtain young Flax plants, dressed Flax fibre and flax leaves.
Bofor Gun off the HMNZS Southland Navy Ship. In military combat, the bofor gun is a vital part of a ships self defense.
Served the Bluff Port for over fifty years. Awarua was the most powerful Tug in NZ at the time of her delivery November 1932. She replaced her predecessor the Theresa Ward.
