Vivid Sydney at the Maritime Museum
Highlights
- Join the Maritime Museum to experience the largest Vivid Sydney program, celebrating Indigenous art and storytelling.
- Explore Brian Robinson's stunning light installations that merge mythology and marine life, creating a surreal visual feast.
- Witness the Cosmic Chase rooftop projection, where ancient myths and pop culture playfully collide in vibrant animations.
- Stroll through the Floating Realm, a captivating display of LED-lit forms that dance across the harbour and sky.
Join the Maritime Museum for their largest Vivid Sydney program to date, celebrating Indigenous artforms and storytelling.
The Museum will be championing the incredible work of renowned Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Island) artist Brian Robinson, with the precinct illuminated after dark.
Mythical Mashup: The Graphic Worlds of Brian Robinson
A trilogy of light-based installations across rooftop, harbour, and heritage architecture, transforming the precinct into a surreal realm where mythology, marine life, and pop culture collide.
Cosmic Chase – Rooftop Projection
The museum rooftop is transformed into a looping, animated battleground where ancient mythology collides with pop culture and arcade-era fantasy. Drawing on the graphic language of Torres Strait artist Brian Robinson, the projection unfolds as a playful pursuit across a glowing field of geometric flowers, marine motifs, and bold patterning.
Floating Realm – Harbour and Lighthouse Installation
Floating Realm unfolds across the harbour and lighthouse as a sculptural landscape of LED-lit forms, hovering on the water’s surface and suspended in the sky. Monumental tentacles curl and rise from the harbour, joined by drifting fish, a glowing moon, and other forms drawn from Robinson’s visual world where marine life, mythology, and pop culture collide.
Images and Video
Dates & times
- Next occurrence: reoccurring
Accreditations
- Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Features
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
Hearing
Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
Access & Inclusion
An access and inclusion statement is available on the business website.
- https://www.sea.museum/en/visit/plan-your-visit/accessibility
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