Sea Chest Secret contains 28 interactive exhibits exploring:
- Environmental Science
- Marine Biology
- Maritime History and Archaeology
- Maritime Art
- Maritime Navigation
- Maritime Botany and Life at Sea
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Activities
Extras
Exhibit Notes
- Background to Suspects in Exhibition
- Beat it - Percussion Instruments in the Pacific
- Botany Bound - Botanists On Board
- Can You Fathom It - River Soundings
- Captain's Code - Semaphore Flags
- Carving Clue - Sculpture in the Pacific
- Choose a Chest - Tools and Clothes Carried in Sea Chests
- Delve Deep - Pearl Oysters
- Exhibit Descriptions, Subjects and Clues
- Haul Away - Signal Flags
- Out to Dry - Clothing and Laundry on Ships
- Perch a Parrot - Sextants and Navigation
- Pressing Problem - Collecting Specimens
- Puzzling Portholes - Landscape Painting
- Raise the Rigging - Ship Sails and Rigging
- Restore the Relic - Ship Bells
- Roaming Rats - Vermin on Board
- Scurvy Science - Antiscorbutic Foods and Vitamin C
- Spot the Skipper - a History of Silhouettes
- Tattoo Clue - Polynesian and European Tattoo History
- Tests of Time - Chronometers and Navigation
- Tracks in Time - Animal Footprints
- Who's Hidden - Art Restoration and Conservation
