Toy Boats exhibition season extended
The popular exhibition Bateaux Jouets - toy boats from Paris 1850-1950 will remain on view at the Australian National Maritime Museum for an additional two months. until Sunday, 12 October.
Australian National Maritime Museum
The exhibition opened in March this year and was due to close next Sunday, 17 August.
'We're extremely pleased to have negotiated this extension,' the museum director, Mary-Louise Williams, said today..
Bateaux Jouets - toy boats from Paris 1850-1950, from France's Mus?e national de la Marine, comprises some 200 colourful and imaginative craft. They range in style from simple paper boats to stunning mechanical marvels with the ability to propel themselves across a carpet, a pond or even an open bay.
And they are the products of their time, reflecting western Europe's rapid industrialisation over the century 1850-1950 and the evolution of pleasure boats, passenger liners and fighting ships in that period.
Sponsored by Specific Freight and Cathay Pacific Cargo, Bateaux Jouets - toy boats from Paris 1850-1950 is appearing exclusively at the National Maritime Museum in Australia. The museum is open daily, 9.30 am to 5 pm. Information, (02) 9298 3777 or www.anmm.gov.au
by Bill Richards 
Port Macquarie, NSW
