Museum
HMAS Castlemaine
7 locals recommend,
Location
Syme Street
Williamstown, VIC
Tips from locals
Visit the heritage listed HMAS Castlemaine ship, you can go aboard for a small fee (please check out their website for more details). Enjoy the nice views of the bay and check out the floating seafood stall for the first catch of the day.
The HMAS Castlemaine (a most amazing floating naval museum in a war ship built at the Williamstown dockyards) has every aspect of naval wartime life exhibited in every medium - photos, radio exerpts, film, relics, you can go up on deck and go right down and tour theengine room...plus you can sit in the gun turret and swivel the gun!
Castlemaine is open every weekend and public holidays from 12pm to 5 pm and weekdays by appointment for school and adult groups Phone (03) 9397 2363 weekends or (03 9853 0823 before 10am weekdays. Visitors can visit a WW II warship painstakingly refurbished. Inspect the 4 inch gun, the bridge complete with wheel, compasses, radar screen and more. See the chart house over, the refurbished officer’s cabins & their wardroom. Get down amongst the powerful reciprocating steam engines. Ask a guide to explain how things work. Visitors can also inspect in what was the crew's mess a fascinating collection of nautical exhibits & memorabilia of the past, recording aspects of Australia's heritage.
Castlemaine is open every weekend and public holidays from 12pm to 5 pm and weekdays by appointment for school and adult groups Phone (03) 9397 2363 weekends or (03 9853 0823 before 10am weekdays. Visitors can visit a WW II warship painstakingly refurbished. Inspect the 4 inch gun, the bridge comple…