All travellers are welcome to a one-day seminar on Sunday 27 July 2008 at the National Maritime Museum which brings together well-travelled speakers to share tales and traditions of keepsake collecting while trying to answer what is trash and what is treasure when it comes to souvenirs.

Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, will discuss the extravagance of souveniring and his own obsession with collecting “better quality tourist art”.

"So often it isn't how good the Tibetan carpet is that makes it so memorable, it's that you bought it directly from a Tibetan carpet shop in Patan in Nepal, strapped it on to the carrier on the back of your bike and then paddled back with it to your hotel in Kathmandu," said Tony Wheeler.

He will be joined by Australian author and historian Richard White, University Professor and collector Peter Spearitt and travel ephemera collector Daryl Mills.

Held in association with our latest exhibition Trash or Treasure? Souvenirs of travel.