National
Maritime Museum: At this museum, one saw plenty of ships that are important to
Australian history. The HMAS Vampire is
a Daring class destroyer is last gun ship in Australia. Being on this destroyer was simply awesome,
almost ready to fire the guns. The HMAS Onslow
was the submarine that I saw. Arguably
the most famous ship is the HMB Endeavour, in which Captain James Cook of
Great Britain surveyed Australia in 1770.
Hyde
Park Barracks (convict museum): For those who do not know, Australia was
founded as a penal colony. Since the Americas
were lost to the Colonies, the British needed to find another place to dump
their prisoners. Prisoners were either
exiled to Australia or killed. This
museum remembered those of the First Fleet, in which 700 of the 1000 of those
who arrived were prisoners. There was plenty of history in this museum; it is a
must-see in Australia.
In
the end, I did not get to as many museums as I anticipated. The Australian Museum was the other museum
that I considered going to.
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