Aurora Philpin
Assistant Curator, Maritime Heritage
Aurora Philpin is a maritime archaeologist, coxswain and experienced diver.
Aurora has undertaken maritime archaeological fieldwork and museum collection based work in both Queensland and Western Australia.
With a passion for telling stories of the human past via the objects left behind, Aurora has focused her research on using archaeometry to identify unknown shipwrecks, further understanding their place in Australian history.
She is an advocate for public outreach, hoping to make the community excited about shipwrecks for the future protection of sites.
Aurora works towards further interpretation of Western Australian underwater cultural heritage and associated artefacts, while making these stories publicly accessible.
