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Guide:

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Maritime Museum.

Now before we commence our tour I'd just like to tell you a little bit about the history of the museum.

As you can see, it's a very modern building built in the post modern style and it was in fact opened by the Prime Minister of Australia in November 1991.

It's been designed with a nautical flavour in mind to remind us of Q13 our links with the sea.

But the museum isn't only housed in this building, there are a number of historic ships docked outside in the harbour which form part of the museum and which you are also free to visit, and we'll be coming to them shortly Q14 I'd just like to point out one or two things of general interest while we're here.

Handicapped toilets are located on this floor and the door shows a wheelchair.

The cloakroom where you can hang your coat or leave your bags is just behind us here. The education centre is on the top floor and there's a good little library in there which you might like to use.

Follow the signs to the Education Centre—you'll see a lot of little green arrows on the wall.

The green arrows will take you Q15 there. The information desk, marked with the small letter i on your plan is located right here in the foyer, so if you get separated from your friends, I suggest you make your way back to the information desk because we'll be returning to this Q16 spot at the end of the tour. All right?

Now if you look out this window you should be able to see where the museum's ships are docked. If you want to go on a tour of the old ship, the Vampire, she's docked over there and you should meet outside on the quay.

However a word of warning! I don't recommend it for the grandmas and grandpas because there are lots of stairs to climb.

Right, now, let's move on Q17. Oh, I almost forgot to give you the times for that tour.

Now, tours of the Vampire run on the hour every hour. All right? Q18