Axel Stenross Maritime Museum Inc

Axel Stenross made boats and the museum celebrates him and the rich maritime history of Port Lincoln.

This is one of South Australia's most distinctive museums. It is an historic house but it is not the grand home of a rich landowner. Finnish-born Axel Stenross lived humbly in his corrugated iron complex. You can see, for example, where some walls are made from tea chests. It is still an operating slip-yard where small craft are cleaned and painted in amongst a number of historic vessels now at their final home.

Axel's home is simple but the museum is twenty-first century in other ways. If you want to know about the many vessels which came to Port Lincoln - often as part of the great grain trade between South Australia and Europe -you can find what you need on touch screens. The place is a Mecca for people from Scandinavia who say they can find out more about their own sailing history in Port Lincoln than they can at home, and what visitors won't find out on their own, they will find