Lightning Ridge Heritage Cottage Hospital Gallery
The sign “Lightning Ridge Population?” welcomes you to the opal fields. Here at the museum we research, record, maintain and share local history to explain the “?”. People come to the Ridge seeking opal, landscape and legends. It’s a lifestyle. Our complex is located just past the Crocodile Caravan Park at the beginning of town.
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RAAF Wagga Heritage Centre
In addition to the Heritage Centre, pictured, the RAAF Base Wagga has a display of static aircraft at the front gate which can be viewed at any time. Currently a Canberra bomber, Meteor jet, Mirage and Sabre fighters and a Winjeel trainer may be seen on display. Wagga Wagga RAAF Museum was officially opened in June 1995
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Tumut & District Historical Society Museum
The Tumut Museum is managed by the members of the Tumut & District Historical Society which was formed in 1962. The Museum collection began in 1975 and was opened on its present site in 1979. The focus of the Museum is on our collection of Miles Franklin memorabilia, Historical Photographic Collection and items of agricultural
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McCrossin’s Mill Museum and Function Centre
You can sense it the minute you walk through the doors of McCrossin’s Mill. The building: granite, brickwork, whitewash. Robust. No adornments. Permanent Exhibit A. You can feel something here. Like somebody beckoning, whispering. Uralla, the beginning and the end of bushranger, Captain Thunderbolt, shot dead in 1870. On the ground floor, a set of
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Taralga Historical Society Museum
Looking for a day’s outing? Then head to historic Taralga. Visit the historical museum and step back in time in the colonial cottage and the slab dairy or the shearing shed/blacksmith complex and the recently added Nissan Hut. Morning tea and lunch can be arranged by appointment. A worthwhile historical tour of the complex is
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Pye Cottage Museum
The Pye Cottage Museum, established in 1975, was moved piece by piece from its original site near Dalton, by the Gunning & District Historical Society and re-erected in its current position on Yass Street, Gunning. The slab hut cottage is furnished to some extent with period pieces. It houses a number of photographs that relate
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Scone Museum
Discover bygone times at the Scone Museum. Learn about Scone and district, the history, the people, and their way of life. Housed in the old Scone Lock-up and built in 1870, the lock-up was adapted as a residence in 1930 when new cells were built in the exercise yard. It became the home of the Museum
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Merriwa Railway Station
Merriwa is on the Golden Highway about 60 kilometres from Scone in the Hunter Region. The old Merriwa Railway is a feature of the town which now operates as a museum with displays in the Station Master and Ticket Rooms’ and a small library in the Waiting Room. Come and see the original station building, goods
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Merriwa Colonial Museum
Merriwa Colonial Cottage Museum presents a collection of items sourced mainly from local residents. The Cottage was built in 1857 from sandstone quarried up the road and pushed down on timber slabs. It served as a series of banking businesses until the 1950s when it became a private residence. The original building consisted of four rooms, a
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Tweed Regional Museum
We acknowledge the Tweed Bundjalung people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Museum sits, and recognise and respect continuing connection to Country. In all that we do here at Tweed Regional Museum, we aim to collect and share the stories of our community. Our beautiful Museum – a mix of heritage
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Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Arts Museum
Sir Henry Parkes “The Father of Federation” stood on the site that would become The National Trust’s first museum where in October, 1889 he delivered a speech that in the words of Sir Robert Garran; “turned a vague ideal into a practical working program for Federation”. Henry Parkes was born in England in May, 1815
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Temora Rural Museum
The Temora Rural Museum is the centerpiece of Temora’s vibrant new social heritage precinct, the Bundawarrah Centre. Set in landscaped grounds, the Museum offers an amazing variety of exhibits and working examples of rural technology that recall the historical experience of living and working in the Temora community. Regular working bees by museum volunteers, every
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Tocumwal Railway Heritage Museum
The Tocumwal Railway Heritage Museum is located in the historic railway station. At the western end of town, there are three museum areas. The front museum incorporates photos and memorabilia dating back to 1908 and a steam train mural. There is rail and Lion’s Club memorabilia, along with tea rooms in the middle room and the
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Tamworth Powerstation Museum
No trip to Tamworth is complete until you visit the Tamworth Powerstation Museum. It was 8 o’clock on the evening on Friday, 9 November, 1888, when Mayoress, Mrs. Elizabeth Piper, unlocked the switch with a gold key and turnt on 21.5 kilometres of street lights in Tamworth were lit by electricity; the first Municipal Electric Street Lighting in Australia. They operated
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Calala Cottage
Calala Cottage was designed and built by Philip Gidley King in 1875. The cottage is furnished with items mainly from the late Victorian period. Displays in the museum range from early aboriginal artefacts through to the establishment of Tamworth as a city. Bequests from notable Tamworth families enhance the exhibits. These include a large teaspoon
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Australian Country Music Hall of Fame
The Australian Country Music hall of Fame is located in a guitar shape building the corner of Peel & Murray Street Tamworth. Memorabilia from early pioneers of country music through to our current stars is on display. All or memorabilia & artefacts are genuine and donated either by the artist or their families. The exhibits
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Sydney Tramway Museum
South Pacific Electric Railway Co-Operative Society Limited (SPER), under the trading name ‘Sydney Tramway Museum’ (STM), restores and operates heritage tramway rolling stock to provide a tourist attraction for people visiting the Loftus museum which is located in the Sutherland Shire of New South Wales. STM aims to provide tourists with a heritage tram travel
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Sutherland Shire Historical Society & Museum
The Sutherland Shire Historical Society & Museum has moved to 88 Venetia Street, Sylvania. Sutherland Shire Historical Society, founded in 1966, is a community group interested in preserving and raising awareness of our local history – from Aboriginal occupation to the arrival of Captain Cook and white settlement up to present day industry. We tell
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Lake Tabourie Museum
The Museum’s exhibits include snakes, spiders, aboriginal artefacts, minerals, local marine life and shells with a number of historical furnished rooms on display, along with Australiana rural life, Aboriginal culture and local history. This history museum is located on the Princes Highway at Tabourie Lake, eleven kms south of Ulladulla on the South Coast of
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Lake Cargelligo & District Historical Society & Museum
The Lake Cargelligo Museum is a keeping place for History & Memorabilia of the town and district. The main hall of the Museum was the old Curlew Hall, which was originally located 16km from the town, where dances and all types of functions were held. The museum was established in 1967 and hall was moved
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