Tumbarumba Historical Museum
Tumbarumba’s old Tattersall’s Hotel is today a Visitor Information Centre and Museum. You will find us at the end of The Parade and we are open every day of the week. Carefully selected items with abundant photographs will quickly tell you the story of our district – just west of the mighty Kosciuszko range. Our
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Sydney Heritage Fleet
Sydney Maritime Museum Ltd is a corporation, limited by guarantee, “owned” by its members and which trades as Sydney Heritage Fleet. We are a. volunteer based and oriented organisation, and a tax-deductible gift recipient & gratefully acknowledge support from the Australian National Maritime Museum through provision of office and wharf space and from Roads &
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Boorowa and District Historical Society and Museum
Do you love Edwardian fashion or have an interest in the wool industry? At the Boorowa Museum there’s something for everyone. The Boorowa Museum is housed in the old George Patterson Store, a pise building constructed in 1882. Since its construction, the building has been used for several enterprises including an undertaking business. The Museum
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Coonamble Museum Under the Bridge
The town Coonamble has an unusual claim to fame in Australian History. Why not step back in the time and visit the ‘Museum under the Bridge’, which outlines the history of Coonamble and its Community. Coonamble Museum Under the Bridge brings to life an era of hardship, hard work and triumph that exemplifies the early
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Heritage Cottage
Orange and District Historical Society was formed in 1949 and provides a focus for gathering and display of historical information and artefacts. ODHS is focused on the collection, identification and display of historical items from the Orange District. A small number of the Society meet every Wednesday at the Heritage Cottage at 148 March Street
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Griffith Pioneer Park Museum
Explore the history of Griffith and the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area as you walk around — and into — an extensive collection of buildings and artefacts from the region. Within these and throughout the Park are many of the machines, tools and other artefacts from the history of Griffith and the construction of the Riverina’s ‘food
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Hyde Park Barracks
A UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in the heart of historic Sydney, the Hyde Park Barracks is an extraordinary living record of early colonial Australia. Originally built to house convicts, the Barracks has also served as an immigration depot, asylum, law courts and government offices. Today it is a cutting-edge museum. Today this immersive museum tells
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Justice & Police Museum
Step into Sydney’s dark side. Crooks and cops, locals and drifters, the guilty and the innocent have all left their stories here. Originally a police station and courts, the museum draws you into a world of crime, policing and punishment, from bushrangers and razor gangs to the future of forensics. In a city that’s grown
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Museum of Sydney
Built over and around the remains of Sydney’s First Government House, join us at the Museum of Sydney for a changing program of exhibitions, events and conversations that explore the character, cultures, and soul of this city, and celebrate the diversity, strength and resilience of its First Nations custodians. In 1788 Governor Phillip chose this
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Yass and District Museum
The Yass & District Museum regularly changes its main display area to highlight aspects of the local history. Currently A J Shearsby; Renaissance Man of Yass features local Alfred James Shearsby a photographer, geologist, artist, astronomer, palaeontologist, writer and administrator with more than a hundred images taken by him during his time in Yass. Other
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The Wollondilly Heritage Centre
The Wollondilly Heritage Centre was built by volunteers from The Oaks Historical Society with funding through the NSW Bicentennial Committee in 1988, on land donated by Wollondilly Shire Council. The award winning complex now comprises five buildings which tell the stories of the people of Burragorang Valley, Yerranderie, The Oaks and many of the 15
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Berrima District Museum
Located in the delightful historic village of Berrima, Southern Highlands this exceptional museum brings to life the history of the district. The museum’s popular exhibition space, the digital gallery, has a new exhibition about the Gardens of the Southern Highlands and the people who created them, past and present. All are viewed on high definition
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Berrima Courthouse Museum
Visitors can capture the feeling of this old building and visualise the many hundreds of people brought before its bench: hoteliers petitioning for licenses; litigants seeking mediation for disputes; escaped convicts and notorious bushrangers, cattle stealers, sly grog sellers, thieves, and murderers brought to justice, many to end their days in the forbidding walls of
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Bradman International Cricket Hall of Fame
The Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame houses state-of-the-art interactive experiences and a museum collection of national significance to suit everyone’s interest. The Bradman Centre boasts many attractions beyond the world-class Museum; a life-size bronze statue of Sir Donald Bradman in the courtyard, a cricket themed children’s park, delicious food from Stumps Cafe,
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Willoughby Museum
WILLOUGHBY MUSEUM operated by the Willoughby District Historical Society is housed in the 1913 Federation cottage, Boronia, at 58 Johnson Street Chatswood (Sydney, Australia). There are a number of permanent exhibitions within the Museum plus special exhibitions from time to time. The Museum focuses on four core themes: Local industries and working lives Domestic life Towns, suburbs
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Oxley Museum
Oxley Museum is managed by members of the Wellington Historical Society who work on a volunteer basis. The collection reflects the European settlement of Wellington and its district and features a Chinese room, a Military room, Trades and Commercial room, Medical room and a room with a display of costumes. Several rooms on the
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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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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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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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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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