Pre-launch website and gallery

Australian Spy Museum

Vision and Mission

The Australian Spy Museum holds the largest private collection of spycraft artefacts in the southern hemisphere, from the Renaissance through to the modern age. This includes cipher machines, spycraft and counter-intelligence equipment, relics from the Berlin Wall, uniforms, awards, a library of rare books, original documents, signed photographs, and more.

Our mission – is to collect, preserve and share artefacts and stories from the intriguing history of espionage, and origins of modern threats.

Our vision – is the mid-term establishment of an independent publicly-accessible museum – a home to protect these artefacts, display them in context, and deliver our educational programs.

A special thank you:
As non-government private collectors our acquisition program was guided and assisted by overseas experts, collectors, brokers and other museums.
Your introductions, shared knowledge and encouragement helped us develop our collection into the amazing resource that it is today.
Thank you for supporting our passion project to share these incredible treasures and stories with the other half of the world.

Spycraft experiences

To earn some initial income to help fund an Australian Spy Museum we have developed some eye-opening and inspiring presentations for government and corporates.

These unique-in-the-world talks use genuine espionage artefacts to bring to life WWII codebreaking and the birth of cyber, the nature of nation state threat actors, and the unsung role of women in security.

These are unforgettable experiences that your clients will talk about for years to come.

Marty Kaiser designed counter surveillance preamplifier
Soviet Fialka Cipher Machine
Laptop and Chanel Bag as used by Russian spy Anna Chapman
East German Mikrat / Microdot Camera

Upcoming presentations

Australian Spy Museum has received a gift of an exceptionally rare c1988 Stasi WSA-6 Burst Transmitter, that had been kept by the original Stasi OTS engineer. More details in our BlueSky post linked here.

We’re delighted to return to SecEdu with an Enigma machine display and live demos for Cyber students at UNSW. These sessions are an investment in the builders and codebreakers of tomorrow.

Sponsors

Thanks to these organisations for helping us bootstrap the Australian Spy Museum
Click to learn more about them.