The Headlie Taylor Header and Blacksmith Shop Museum is located in the town of Henty, on Wiradjuri Country, in the Riverina Murray region of New South Wales. The museum celebrates the work of local farmer-inventor Headlie Taylor, whose innovative mechanical harvester, the Taylor Header Harvester, revolutionised Australian grain production following its introduction in 1915. On […]
Morpeth Museum occupies the restored Morpeth Courthouse overlooking the Hunter River in the village of Morpeth, on Wonnarua Country, in the Hunter region of New South Wales. Once a busy river port, filled with bond stores and hotels, Morpeth was the trading gateway to the Hunter Valley between 1832 and 1920, home to convict families, […]
Built 1891-1905 Trades Hall is one of the few surviving Victorian buildings in Broken Hill. It is prominently located and has been little altered externally since it was built. Its chief internal feature is a vast painted ceiling in a geometrical pattern. The Trades Hall Collection consists of a wide variety of artefacts associated with […]
Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum, also known as the GeoCentre, is located in the historic mining city of Broken Hill, on Wilyakali Country, in the Far West Region of New South Wales. Located in an historic bond store building, this ‘must see’ geological science museum traces and showcases Broken Hill’s rich mining history. On […]
Tweed Regional Museum operates across two venues in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads, on Bundjalung Country, in the North Coast region of New South Wales. Established by the Tweed Shire Council in 2004 with the support of the Murwullimbah, Tweed Heads and Uki Historical Societies, the combined museum operation hosts vibrant permanent displays and temporary exhibitions tracing […]
The Broken Hill Trades Hall Trust collection is housed in the historic Trades Hall building in Broken Hill, on Wilyakali Country, in the Far West of New South Wales. The Trades Hall building was built from 1891 to 1905 and is a renowned example of Victorian-era civic architecture. Dating from the late nineteenth century, the […]
The Up-To-Date Store and Garth Jones Collection is in the small town of Coolamon, near Wagga Wagga on Wiradjuri Country, in the Riverina Murray region of New South Wales. The museum building is a former small department store (est. 1909) and famous for selling ‘anything and everything’ from a plough to a piano. The Up-To-Date […]
The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame museum is in the regional city of Tamworth, on Kamilaroi / Gomeroi Country, in the New England region of New South Wales. Housed within Tamworth’s famous guitar shaped building, the museum celebrates country music, Tamworth’s rise as the nation’s Country Music Capital, its annual Australian Country Music Festival, […]
The Tamworth Powerstation Museum is located in the regional city of Tamworth, on Kamilaroi / Gomeroi Country, in the New England region of New South Wales. It is Australia’s only dedicated electricity museum and occupies a refurbished 1907 Municipal showroom, on the site where wood-fire generators powered the first electric streetlights in the Southern Hemisphere […]
Tamworth Regional Film and Sound Archive is in the regional city of Tamworth, on Kamilaroi / Gomeroi Country, in the New England region of New South Wales. The archive was formed in 1995 to identify and promote the region’s film and sound heritage, and today holds an extensive collection of locally and regional produced media […]
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