The Replica Museum is a boutique, world class museum providing visitors with the opportunity to learn and understand the history and achievements of the men of the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Douglas Mawson.
The museum promotes awareness of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic and highlights Hobart as the gateway to the Antarctic continent for the Asia Pacific region.
Having defied over a century of the world’s most fierce winds at sea level, the original hut still stands today, clinging to the edge of the vast ice sheet of the polar plateau in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica.
The huts are regarded as the birthplace of Australia’s Antarctic heritage and hold a unique place in Australian history. They are of national and international heritage significance, being one of only six remaining sites from the “heroic era” of Antarctic exploration (1898 to 1916), and are also the only surviving site from an Australian Antarctic expedition during that period.
Original Sponsors and Supporters of the Replica Museum building project.
Project Team
Owners
The Mawson’s Huts Foundation
Funding
Australian Government Department of Environment
Architects
CIRCA (Robert Morris-Nunn & Martin Schmidt)
Building Surveyor
Lee Tyers
Construction Managers
J&B Tucker Builders & Peter McCabe Builder
Artistic Director
Harris Art (Peter Harris)
Project Manager
Robert Morris-Nunn, Hobart
Design engineers
Gandy & Roberts – (Jim Gandy)
Site owner
Hobart City Council
Heritage carpenters
Peter McCabe
Jon Tucker
Alan Davis
Tony Spandler
Chris Gallagher
Matt Tucker
Dan Tucker
Original Sponsors
Chimu Expeditions
IQ Consult
Kordia Solutions
Skytraders
Supporters and Contractors
Accommodation
Grand Chancellor Hotel Hobart
ADMINISTRATION (office – Crows Nest)
Chimu Adventures
Advertising
Hobart Mercury
Aurora Observatory display
Peter Morse
Brochure design and COPYwriting
Julie Hawkins and Chris Viney
Communications
Telstra
Construction infrastructure
VOS Construction Ltd, Hobart
Contributing artists
Wendy Sharpe
Disability access consultant
Michael Small
Door furniture
DORMA
Manfred Franks
Access Technology
Electrical engineer
Christopher Crack
Electrician
A.O. Hansson
Electricity supply
Aurora Energy
Footings construction
The Precasters
Glass supplier
Zane Wilson of Southern Glass
Huskies
Australian Antarctic Division
Interpretation designers
Red Arrow – (Tim Williams, Julie Hawkins, Chris Viney)
Lighting
Southern Lights and Distribution
Materials sourcing and supply
Clennetts (Simon Cornelius & Will Clennett)
CRC Distributors
Southern Glass
Materials Prefabrication site
Tasmanian Ports Authority (Tasports)
Mechanical engineer
Ian Loney
Module transportation
Eliotts Crane Hire
Mobile Office Hire
Coates Hire
Photographic record research
Michelle Berry
Photographic images
Mitchell Library of the NSW State Library
Australian Antarctic Division
Mark Pharoah
South Australian Museum
Geoff Ashley
David Killick
Alasdair Macgregor
Plumbing
Howrah Plumbing
Project filming documentation
Chris and Sally Henderson
Matt Tucker
Publication material
Australian Antarctic Division
Transportation
AVIS
Pack and Send (North Ryde)
Sea Freight
Reception fit-out
John de Jong UCI
Marblo
Spicon Linear Matrix LED Illumination
Replica digital display units
AVISUM
Replica equipment fabrication
(acetylene plant and wireless)
John Gillies
Replica interior
Cherie Wolley of Wolley’s Fabrics
Gretchen Jensen
Kate Ferro
Carmen Ayala
REPLica Clothing & Furnishing
Cherie Wolley’s Window Décor
Gretchen Jensen
Katie Ferro
Carmen Alaya
Country Women’s Association (Tasmania)
Replica logo
Peter Anderson
Security
Gunnebo Australia, Chubb
Signage
Sean de Freitas of Saunders Signs
Site Archaeologist
Parry Kostoglou
Site excavation
Walter Construction, T.L Barnett & Tony Spandler
Site Surveyor
Terry Cromer of Cromer & Associates
Sledge restoration
Rod Ledingham
Steel supply
Metaland
Steel Fabrication
Advanced Welding & Ben Tucker
Volunteer general hand
Barbara Tucker
Volunteer heritage carpenters
Ted Bugg
Simon Cornelius
Julian Bampling
Waterproofing membrane supplier
ARDEX Australia
Waterproofing installationZaganite
Website (ORIGINAL SITE in 2013)
Tom Synnott of WeAreUntitled
Work Health and Safety advisor
Josh Laws
OFF SITE CONSTRUCTION
SITE PREPARATION, TRANSPORT & ONSITE CONSTRUCTION
FINISHED EXTERIOR
Become involved and support our work
Help conserve Australia’s rich Antarctic heritage.
The Foundation is a not for profit charity seeking funds to promote and encourage public interest in the nation’s Antarctic history including the conservation of Mawson’s Huts at Cape Denison, East Antarctica.
The Mawson’s Huts Foundation is a registered Deductible Gift Recipient with all monetary donations tax deductible.
