The preparation for the grand opening of a new tourism and education icon for the New South Wales Hunter region is in its final stages in Australia.
The Maritime Centre, Lee Wharf, Newcastle, will open its doors on Sunday, October 12, 2008. The National Maritime Festival, to be held on the same day, will herald the opening of the new Centre, a project which has taken shape under Project Coordinator Evelyn King and the Maritime Centre’s president, the Hon. Peter Morris. The new Maritime Centre has a picturesque backdrop of the working port with some of the world’s largest ships passing by, and the site on which it is built is a highly significant, heritage listed, industrial Federation building in the heart of the newest major tourist and cultural precinct. Ms King said that the activities of the Centre would bring home to people the vital role that the port and its forbears played in the development of the community and region. The site was originally constructed in an era before the advent of rubber-tyred trucks and was then known as a “state of the art” sea to land transport interchange. “They will show how this great world port was built by our predecessors,” said Mr Morris.
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