At the Community open day on 4 October various community groups, staff from the Lord Howe Island Board and local businesses were invited to take a table and share what they do as a way of welcoming in the new tourist season, allowing new staff, residents and visitors to see how the community works.
The Museum had a table in the hall, and attracted a lot of interest with the digital photographic archive and demonstration of the powerful document archive system.
Recently, the great-grandson of Captain Todd, master of the SS Ovalau shipwrecked in 1903, visited Lord Howe Island and related the story of his ancestor.
The seventh annual Sea Slug census was held on Lord Howe Island during February and March.
The Lord Howe Island Museum has received sponsorship from the inaugural Baillie Lodges Spirit of Mateship intitiative.
Coral spawning is a regular annual event on the island, but this year the mass spawning has come early.
