Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre
The Navy Heritage Centre is closed for all visitors until further notice.
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service Outback Experience, Broken Hill
The Royal Flying Doctor Service Outback Experience in Broken Hill An exploration of the history and the operations of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Touch down into the world of heroic doctors, nurses, pilots and the outback communities we service. The ‘Mantle of Safety Museum’ lets you experience our most exciting stories from over 92
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Australian Scout Museum
The Newington Armory is now permanently closed and will not be re-opening. We are unable to supply any further contact information.
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Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Museum
Originally called the Rum Hospital because convicts were paid to import rum for re-sale, Sydney Hospital was founded as a convict hospital in 1788 and was the first building on Macquarie St. It was completed in 1894 and the two outer wings remain today in the form of The Mint and NSW Parliament House. In
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Sir Donald Bradman Birthplace Museum
Granny Scholz, the mid-wife who delivered “The greatest batsman the world has ever known” Sir Donald Bradman on 27th August 1908, operated a small private hospital in the front room of the building at 89 Adams Street. The building was refurbished in 1991, and now his birthplace has been lovingly restored with the official opening
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Junee Roundhouse Museum
The Junee Roundhouse is one of just a few surviving, working, railway Roundhouses in the Southern Hemisphere. It is unique in Australia because of its size, being fully circular and having a long, ‘100 foot’, turntable. While the Museum is part of the Roundhouse, the other part, including the turntable, is still used as a
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Quarantine Station
The historic Quarantine Station is located in Manly on Sydney’s North Head, an area which has important cultural and spiritual significance to the land’s traditional owners. The site is part of the rich history of Aboriginal occupation of the Sydney area. Chosen in 1832 as the ideal site for the development of a quarantine facility, due
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Vienna Cottage
Vienna Cottage is a rare example of an artisan’s home of the past century. Built in 1871, it was the home of John and Ann Hillman and their five children. They lived in what was a typical tradesman’s cottage, with four rooms in the main building and a detached kitchen and laundry at the back.
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Tomago House
Tomage House gives a vivid insight into how weathly landowners lived in the mid 19th century. The house is noted for it’s fine verandahs looking over pastoral land, interiors which reflected the lives and times of a family of status and a social history which spans three generations. This property was originally the estate and
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Riversdale
In 1828, where the Great South Road forded the Wollondilly River, a few allotments were surveyed for the township of Goulburn Plains. Of these, the site of Riversdale was granted to Matthew Healey in 1830. He held an Innkeepers’ license in 1832, operating from a slab building. In 1832, Governor Bourke selected another site for
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Lindesay
Visit historic Lindesay, built in 1834 and step back into the gracious life of early Sydney. Georgian interiors with their fine Australian and English furniture are complemented by an elegant parterre garden and well tended grounds with uninterrupted Harbour vistas. Below stairs the stone kitchen, servants’ quarters and freshwater well are reminiscent of times very
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Harper’s Mansion
Harper’s Mansion is listed on the NSW Government Heritge Register as a property of State heritage significance. The circa 1835 house is a fine example of a colonial Georgian residence and is furnished in period style. The house is set in two acres of strolling gardens of cool climate heritage plants, overlooking the historic village of Berrima and features
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Cooma Cottage
On the banks of the Yass River, Cooma Cottage is in the heart of the rich sheep grazing country which attracted pioneers in the early 1820s and 1830s. The original colonial bungalow forms part of the earliest complex of dwellings and stables on the site, as built by pioneering pastoralist, Cornelius O’Brien. The property is
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Bulli Black Diamond Museum Heritage Centre
The Bulli Black Diamond Museum Heritage Centre is located on the eastern platform Bulli Railway Station. The museum opened in 1989 and houses a collection of railway and local coal mining artefacts, as well as physical and photographic exhibitions of local interest. Rail in Bulli has a long history of over 150 years, beginning with
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Liverpool Regional Museum
Liverpool Regional Museum was established in 1989 with the aim of preserving and promoting Liverpool’s cultural heritage, history and stories through heritage collections, exhibitions and public programs. Today, at no cost, visitors can experience the permanent exhibition “Resonances: objects, lives and stories of Liverpool” as well as a changing program of diverse exhibitions, accompanied by
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Molong Museum
The Molong museum is housed in a delightful stone building on the corner of Riddell & Gidley Streets and was built in 1860 as a hotel. It was then called “The Golden Fleece”. It is known that a rubble mason and also his son lived in Molong at that time and were responsible for several
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Narooma Lighthouse Museum
Come and discover the exciting maritime history of Narooma at the Narooma Lighthouse Museum, located at the Narooma Visitor Centre. The key piece of the Narooma Lighthouse Museum is the original light and optical apparatus from the Montague Island Lightstation. The light and optical apparatus were constructed by Chance Brothers of Birmingham, suppliers of most
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Observer Printery Museum
In a time where the humble local newspaper was the dominant form of media and news, the Observer Printery was first established in Henty in 1905. The printing equipment was brought from the Border Post in Albury and transported by bullock team to Henty. The Printery was housed in a galvanized iron shed, then later
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Headlie Taylor Header Museum
Headlie Taylor invented the header harvester in 1914 and significantly improved grain harvesting technology in Australia and throughout the world using a forge, anvil and primitive tools in the days of horse drawn implements. Next came a series of inventions and improvements, while contending with world wars, pandemics, depressions and droughts, which led to the
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Quirindi Rural Heritage Village & Miniature Railway
Heritage Village is set on 18 acres of grass, bushland & a lake. It is in the heart of the rich farming area, the Liverpool Plains, in the North West of NSW. Our Museum has been designed to collect, restore, preserve and exhibit artefacts that depict the heritage and culture of our region. The Village has
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