Maritime Museum - Whale Of A Tale

Farm from the winter chill of the South Coast, whale watchers can head indoors into the Maritime Museum's latest interactive exhibition.

Created specially for children aged between 5 and 12 years, the Whale of a Tale exhibit allows you to enter through the whale's mouth and into a mixture of fact and fantasy.

"So they're coming through the head and on one side they've got the baleen so they can see how the krill and the copiepods, the whale's food, was trapped. And we've got examples of what the bits that were made from baleen so they can see what whales were used for in the olden days - walking sticks, riding crops - they even used it for chimney sweeps brushes, so they had a multitude of uses.

The exhibit also includes the decorations and instruments made from whale teeth and bone while a series of quilts highlight the myriad of legends associated with these massive mammals.

"I guess part of it has to do with the fact that they're so enormous and yet they seem so gentle, and so people have always or seem to have always, had this fascination with them. They see them near the coast and then they disappear for so much of the year. And so people come out with all different parts about the whales".

The Whale of a Tale exhibition is on at the Maritime Museum in Port Adelaide. It's open daily.

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