Australian National Maritime Museum

War Brides, Grooms and Babies

Name: War Brides, Grooms and Babies
Start: 2025-10-16
End: 2026-07-31
Location: Australian National Maritime Museum

Where

Australian National Maritime Museum

2 Murray Street, Sydney NSW 2000

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When

Every day, 10am to 4pm Thursday 16 October to Sunday 2 August 2026

Cost

Free

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War splits families apart and throws people together. We explore stories of wartime marriages.

Featuring objects from the collection including the ‘stars and stripes’ jumper knitted by Audrey Capuano on her voyage to a new life in the USA, and a pressed gardenia corsage, memento of war time romance in Melbourne.

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