Hurstville Museum & Gallery
Hurstville Museum & Gallery opened in 2004 and is part of Georges River Council. Located at 14 MacMahon Street in the heart of the Hurstville CBD, it is the only regional museum and gallery in the St George district. A popular destination for thousands of local and interstate visitors each year, the Museum & Gallery
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Newcastle Museum
Newcastle Museum is a vibrant and welcoming centre for and about Newcastle. The new Museum opened to the community on 4 August 2011. Located in the historic Honeysuckle Railway workshops, the Museum is right in the heart of Newcastle. The new Museum is a more than simply a re-invention of the original Newcastle Regional Museum
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Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Historical Society Museum
An extensive digitised photographic archive includes the A.C. Bennett Collection (circa 1911-16), Waterfall and A.E. Murray original glass negatives, community organisations, timber, dairying and farming industries, WWI & WWII soldiers, families, natural disasters, sporting events and the Dorrigo- Glenreagh Railway. Other important objects and collections include the Wharfdale Printing Press for many years used to
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Casino Historical Museum
Casino Historical Museum, operated by Casino and District Historical Society, is custodian of a diverse and fascinating collection of objects that hark back to the early days of Casino and surrounding districts. The museum is evidence of the people, events and stories that have made the town of Casino so unique. With significant items ranging
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Canowindra Historical Museum
The Canowindra Museum was established in a former school building which was transported from the outlying center of Murga in 1970. Several other small buildings and two machinery sheds have since been added. The adjacent Railway Cottage, formerly the Stationmasters residence, built in 1910, was purchased by the Historical Society in 1988 with a Bi-Centennial
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Glenalvon House
A walk through historic Glenalvon House is a step back in time. A minute from the hustle of Campbelltown’s CBD, Glenalvon is a classic Georgian sandstone town house, built in 1840 by Michael Byrne, son of Hugh “Vesty” Byrne, one of the Irish Wicklow rebels. State Heritage Listed, one of the first houses to be granted
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Camden Museum
Situated in the centre of Camden’s historic precinct the Museum features displays highlighting the local Aboriginal community, the Macarthur family, agricultural industries, the Nepean River and its place in the community and women’s history. The collection is particularly strong in photography, archives and over 4000 objects. Most of the objects have been donated by local
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Bingara Museum
The Museum occupies several buildings, the main one originally the Post Office Hotel. It is of slab construction using pit sawn and hand-adzed local cypress timber with a puddled iron roof. Built in 1860, the building has been a private home since World WarI and saw continuous occupation until 1970. The Post Office Hotel was one of the
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Bellingen Museum
The Bellinger Valley Historical Society was formed in 1962 to research, collect, preserve, display and report the story and relics of the Bellinger Valley and its people. Information on the aboriginal people and the early visitors was inadequate so government records, newspapers, family diaries, scrap books, records and photographs were our early resources. In the
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Bega Pioneers’ Museum
The Pioneers’ Museum is situated in an old hotel built in 1858-59 with several exhibition rooms and outdoor display areas containing every aspect of early Bega and district life–farming, industry, military, machinery, transport and domestic history, as well as a comprehensive range of family histories. Highlights of the museum include the collection of over 200
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Batlow Museum
Experience the hardships of early pioneers and the drive of visionary Herbert Velvin Smith (OBE) who made Batlow Famous for Apples! The Museum is operated by Batlow Historical Society and is located in the former St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church building. The premises feature a stained glass window originating from Scot’s Church Sydney, built in 1826
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Bathurst District Historical Society Museum
The Bathurst District Historical Society Museum, Archives and Bookshop are located in the East Wing of the heritage listed Bathurst Courthouse, designed by Colonial Architect James Barnett. The Courthouse building is in the middle of the CBD of Bathurst and is just one of the many heritage listed buildings in the town. The Society is
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Crawford House Museum
Located in the heritage town of Alstonville in northern NSW, Crawford House, originally known as ‘Olivene’, was built in 1910 for Mr William Ambrose Crawford and his wife Olive. The Museum features many interesting household objects reflecting family life from the turn of the century to the 1960s. The Alstonville Plateau Historical Society operates the Musuem
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Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum
The Museum began in 1983 in a couple of vacant rooms in what was The Old Pilot’s Cottage on the corner where the Ballina Information Centre now stands. Ten years later, in December 1993, the Museum moved into its present site housing among other exhibits, the remaining raft of the famed Las Balsas Expedition of 1973.
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Armidale Bicentennial Railway Museum
The railway age in Armidale began in the early 1880s and profoundly transformed local social and economic life. Armidale was an important railway centre located on the main line from Sydney to Brisbane with a locomotive depot and facilities for handling all kinds of goods and livestock. At its peak it was the largest single
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Armidale Folk Museum
Tracing its origins back to 1933 the Armidale Folk Museum is housed in the magnificent 1863 Armidale Literary Institute and explores the history of the region. A wide range of exhibits show everyday life and work in the past and the citizens’ solemn sacrifice in times of war. Permanent displays provide a glimpse into how
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Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place
The Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place is where you can experience the diversity of Australian Indigenous arts and culture. It trades as the Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place (ACCKP). The Centre is located in the beautiful city of Armidale, in northern New South Wales. The region is renowned for its friendly communities,
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Alumny Creek School Museum
This heritage award winning school museum is a tribute to the bygone era of one-teacher schools of the 1930s. Retaining much of its original character and charm, the schoolhouse experience comes complete with blackboard and easel, desks with inkwells, Metters Fuel Stove, teacher’s desk and aids, including the much feared cane! The link between the
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Age of Fishes Museum
Imagine a world ruled by fish! Long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, the mighty rivers of the Central West teemed with bizarre ancient fishes–armoured fishes, fishes with lungs and huge predators with jaws like crocodiles. Thousands of their fossils were found at Canowindra and give us a unique glimpse into life during the Devonian Period–the
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Adelong Alive Museum
Adelong Alive Museum tells the stories of Adelong and district, beginning in the gold rush period of 1852 and continuing to the present day. This small but vibrant museum offers a variety of local displays and travelling exhibitions which are rotated regularly. Narratives of the gold mining era and the commercial development of the town
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