Museums Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By corunnaroad on 07-Sep-14. Waypoint GA6880

We are fortunate to have a local museum near where we live. Logan Village Museum.

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While in the Burnie area we happened to pass by the museum here. We grabbed a photo and looked up opening hours so we could come back and check it out. TFTC

The Small Arms Factory Museum on Methven Street in Lithgow, well worth a visit.

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This location is the Museum Of Unley, which tells all the historical things about the Unley council and the surrounding suburbs,

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James0116

National Automobile Museum of Tasmania
Lindsay St, Launceston

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This is the Museum in Dunolly Victoria. It wasn’t open but there was a variety of items displayed in the windows.
Of interest is the anvil outside. The world’s largest gold nugget (the Welcome Stranger) was cut up on it on 9 February 1869.

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S41 28.614 E146 34.980 ELIZABETH TOWN TASMANIA

This place promotes itself as a museum but I have never seen any evidence of visitors except on one occasion about two years ago. It appears to me to be the property of an avid collector of memorabilia who is prepared to show his collection to the passing public. I have never stopped as I am usually passing on my way to somewhere. I feel sure there would be many interesting things to see in this collection.

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Have just spent a few days in the NE Tassie town of Derby doing the many mountain bike trails in the area.
Grabbed a photo of the School House museum while passing just for this cache.

Step into the past and explore the vibrant mining and social history of the picturesque township of Derby in Tasmania’s North East. The Derby Schoolhouse Museum is a local history museum situated in the heritage school building, which was built in 1897. The Museum’s collection includes many photographs, documents and artefacts dating from the early days of European settlement in the region, with a focus on the mining era. There is also a replica school room which is furnished with desks and other items from the Derby State School, including exercise and copy books which belonged to students of the school, dating back over 100 years, a small but poignant display of World War I and World War II items, and much more. A good spot to take a break on your journey, talk to some local residents, and learn about the region.

The museum can be found at S41 08.790 E147 48.068
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Clunes museum.
Fraser st clunes showcases the gold mining past.
S37 17.602 e143 47.184.
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Clunes museum.
Fraser st clunes showcases the gold mining past.
S37 17.602 e143 47.184.
Cheers

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This is the Busselton Museum, a Fire has gone through it, it should be reopened before Christmas
S33 39.137 E115 20.988
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S33° 19.583' E115° 38.355'

Bunbury Museum, Arthur Street, Bunbury, WA

Bunbury has only had this museum for a few years now. It is reopening soon after being shut down due to COVID19. I thought I had missed a police display but through Facebook they have told me it will still be on display when they reopen. With three generations on my family tree plus other off branches in the police force starting back to 1850's I'm interested in this display.

The building has been around for many years. It once was a school (think this is the original use), has been a dance studio, and a cafe has been in there too. Probably other things but not often I go past the front of the building

TFTC

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The Serviceton Museum is a wonderful treasure of memories. Housed in the old Serviceton Railway Station it has upstairs and down in the cellars to be explored. Because it is on the border of South Australia and Victoria trains had to stop here for passengers to change trains dur to the difference in rail gauges. There are still the cells beneath ground level where prisoners were chained overnight. It is a wonderful place to explore. We only knew of its existence because there is a Geocache there. Well worth a visit.

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This is the Inveresk Precinct Queen Victoria Museum in Tasmania. We have visited it quite a few times over the years. Thanks Corunnaroad for organising this locationless cache.

We are currently in New Zealand for a geocaching event to be held this weekend in Oamaru. We visited the Te Papa museum in Welli gton. what a very informative museum. Well presented displays. TFTC S41 17.450
E 174 46.890

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National Museum of Australia! Nice and close to home!

The National Automobile Museum of Tasmania located in Launceston in northern Tasmania. Cars just aren't my thing so have not visited.. thanks..!!

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The Cunderdin Museum is certainly worth a stop and look.
Housed in the old N`3 Steam Pumping Station used in the early days for the
Perth to Kalgoorlie water pipeline.
Filled inside and out with local nic nacs and memorabilia, there is something for everyone.
TFTC

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Driving up to Broome from Tasmania we encountered a few small local museums. Near the One Mile Jetty at Carnarvon is the Railway Station Museum which houses the Kimberley Steam train and WAs first Shearing Hall of Fame. There was a lot of machinery outside the buildings as well. The sign says Jetty Train museum .

As mentioned before...this museum is a bit better than the one up the road, but they are so differnt. The students loved this place. There was lots to see and thins to do.

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Melbourne Museum of Printing

266 Geelong Rd, West Footscray.

It was a shut today and a sign up on the building saying it is for sale.

Not sure if it operates still but the website is running.

TFTL

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We took the Year 2 kids here for an excursion. Not bad, not bad. The Arms of Australia Museum down the road at Emu Plains was far superior. Just sayin'

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Manly Art Gallery & Museum
West Esplanade
Manly, NSW

This one is located almost right on the beach. From the front of the museum you can see the Manly Ferry Wharf.

Very busy place most of the time, with lots of tourists.

A few magpies were enjoying the lawn as well, and cleaning up after picnics . . .

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Spotted this impressive steam engine outside the Tumut & District Historical Society Museum in the high country town of Tumut in southern NSW. The society was formed in 1962 and the museum opened on its present site in 1979. The focus of the Museum is on Miles Franklin memorabilia and items of agricultural machinery relating to the Tumut district.
Tumut is a great town, well worth a visit! Thanks corunnaroad!
Cheers
MajuraHathi

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The Grove Hill Heritage Museum - an interesting place to visit. Grove Hill was established in 1934 and is situated on the original north/south road among the easliest gold mining settlements of the 1800s. the small museum is dedicated to the areas history.

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The Otago Museum is in Dunedin and displays include the development of the area. well worth a visit.

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Balaklava, South Australia

Balaklava is also home to Urlwin Park, another worthwhile place to visit. (It's a worry when you see things in a museum that you still use)
TFTC

Queensland Transport Museum, Gatton, Qld.

The Queensland Transport Museum has a great display of approximately 24 forms of transport of various ages and over 200 models that explore the creations, founders and functions of Western Transport.

The Museum operates Monday - Friday from 9.00am until 5.00pm, Saturday and Sunday 9.00am - 4.30pm.

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Never Never Museum in Mataranka is worth a visit. It allows visitors to explore the town's pioneering heritage. There is a range of outdoor displays and a photo gallery documenting Mataranka's railway history, the Overland Telegraph Line, bush workshop, military history as well as regional industrial archaelogy. Thanks corunnaroad for a great locationless.

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The Ulverstone Local History Museum had its origins early in the 1980s when a group of interested volunteers came together to preserve local history. As well as many exhibits collected from the area, buildings from the wider community were identified and moved to a site in Main Street where been the site for a garage and workshops. The relocated buildings included a school, gaol, navigation beacon and part of a railway station. The museum is a very worthwhile place to visit as it does give a good insight into the history of the area. The photo added to the Gallery shows Mrs y’stassie outside the museum.

McCrossin's Mill Museum, Uralla NSW
The flour mill was built in 1870 for John McCrossin from Ireland with the ground floor walls and verandah footings constructed of Uralla granite. In 1979 the Uralla Historical Society bought the derelict building and restored it. It contains a series of nine paintings of Captain Thunderbolt's (the bushranger) last day, chinese artefacts from the Rocky River goldfields and many more exhibits. It's a popular tourist attraction in Uralla.
TFTC corunnaroad

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A small museum in Rangiora manned by volunteers.

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Goulburn War Memorial is at the top of a large hill overlooking to city. There is a GC cache nearby and, very conveiently, a museum.

I arrived as the museum was being locked up for the night so just managed to grab a quick photo before the gates were locked.

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O'Keefe Museum - Katherine
Open during the dry season only (May - September)
Built in 1942 as an officer's mess as part of the large engineers camp during military occupation of KTR during the war. Further historical significance comes with its occupation in port war period by many families who were well known in the region. Officially opened in March 1988 as a museum this historical National Trust museum continues to intrigue visitors with its eccentric vernacular style! well worth a visit. Thanks corunnaroad for this locationless.

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Burnett House-a small museum run by volunteers set up in an old Darwin style house. They have high tea on Sundays throughout the dry which makes a visit very worthwhile.

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The Tasmanian Transport Museum is one of our favourite local places to visit.
The museum exhibits include railway locomotives, railmotors, carriages and wagons, trams, trolley buses, motor buses, stationary steam engines and many other items of historical interest. There is also a display of historical photographs and other small objects. Short demonstration train trips are run at the museum twice a month, on the first and third Sunday. These are presently operated by DP class diesel railmotor on the first Sunday, and one of our steam locomotives & and vintage carriages on the third Sunday. TFTC

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Qantas hangar in Parap, Darwin houses alot of info about Darwin aviation. It also has old vehicles as well as heaps of memorabilia gathered in the area-well worth a visit. Is looked after by volunteers who also have plenty of knowledge and who are very willing to share their information.

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Visited Cooma Museum.
The NSW Correctional Services Gaol Museum is located in Vale Street next to the Cooma Gaol.
The museum highlights the 200 year penal history of incarceration from convict days to the present in NSW Prisons.
It displays a collection of objects related to punishment and crime such as manacles, leg irons, clothing, weapons and escape devices and other visual documentation. Members of the public and small groups are all welcome.
Take the Kids, they’ll Love It!

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The Sydney Jewish Museum identifies the 16 Jews who arrived on the First Fleet and describes life for those people and their families in the early days in the settlement of Australia. The main purpose of the museum, however, is to document and teach the history of the Holocaust. It does this over three floors of exhibitions, video presentations, newspaper clippings, pictures, narrations, letters and first hand accounts. There are also guided tours; one of the guides is Holocaust survivor and writer Olga Horak.

Museum address: 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst NSW 2010 (corner of Burton St and Darlinghurst Rd).

The Sydney Jewish Museum is dedicated to documenting and teaching the history of the Holocaust so that these events will never be repeated.
(above info provided by wikipedia)

I have passed this Museum many times and have yet to have a chance to visit it, but it looks worth a visit.

The old Fannie Bay Gaol in Darwin is now a museum - an interesting piece of territory history.

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Burnie Regional Museum. The museum is across the courtyard from the Arts and Function Centre in the middle of town. The main exhibition is Federation Street which is a display of shops and businesses set up as they might have been around 1900. They have other exhibitions which change periodically. The current one is a display of portrait photos across time, each portrait has one thing in common, all the subjects are unidentified. The museum is open on weekdays, except on public holidays. We haven't ever visited but if we can organise getting there on a workday I'd love to go. TFTL

Ringsfield House and Museum Nanango.It has been uttilised for several purposes. At one stage it was a maternity hospital. Moved to its current site as an historical house and museum and in the grounds there are several buildings dating back to the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Ringsfield House was built in 1908 for Mr and Mrs James William Davies Graham. It was designed by noted Queensland Architect Robin Dods and is distinguished by its wide verandas, bay windows, large, airy bedrooms and built in cupboards.

Ringsfield has enjoyed four lives so far! From 1908 till 1942 it was the private home of the Graham and Sullivan families. In 1942, the house became the Ringsfield Maternity Hospital. During the hospital’s 28 year history, between 3,000 and 4,000 babies were born here prior to the hospital finally closing in 1970. By 1973 the house was occupied again as a lifeline refuge and continued in this capacity for a further 20 years. Finally in 1992 the then Nanango Shire Council determined that Ringsfield should be restored as a museum and historical centre.

Today, Ringsfield is an active community museum offering displays, art and crafts, and catering for small functions. As the headquarters of the Nanango Historical Society, it is a repository for historical photographs and archives. Also within the precinct is a replica coach house (built from materials rescued from the demolished 100 year old Nanango Show grandstand), a cream shed, a slab shepherd's hut, the town's original Presbyterian Church and Nanango's oldest surviving building - the State School built in 1866.

The extensive gardens were designed in 1993 by landscape architect, Jeremy Ferrier.

Ringsfield has many stories to tell and, for visitor of all ages, it provides a unique opportunity to experience the lifestyle of past generations or a picturesque spot for your wedding photographs to be taken. It is open 10.00am to 2.00pm Monday to Saturday and or by appointment. $3 Entry Charge applies and catering for Devonshire teas, lunches and dinners are available upon request.

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania. The museum was established in 1843, by the Royal Society of Tasmania under the leadership of Sir John Franklin, the oldest Royal Society outside of England.

A little place I visited 2 weeks ago...called The Louvre. Some intersting artworks around here...and I wonder if Mary is actaully under there.

Thanks again corunnaroad...another fun little locationless to log.

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Berry Historic Museum.

The museum displays items related to the area's agricultural, dairying & timber past. Housed in the former ES&A Bank building which was constructed in 1885. It displays a great many items which have been donated by local citizens. Photographs of people, places & past activities. No entry cost.

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This Military museum has recently been renovated and uses some state of the art equipment to demonstrate things that happened in Darwin during WW2-well worth a visit.

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MAGNT -Museum and ART Gallery of the Northern Territory is a very popular place to visit when in Darwin. Great idea for a locationless corunnaroad.

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Echuca Historical Society Museum is in the old part of Echuca. In fact, the building in the former police station.
If you're ever in town it's worth a visit to the museum to catch up on a huge collection of local historical information.

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Hi corunnaroad
Friends of ours own the Chocolate Factory at Taranna, Tasmania.
Inside the building they have established a bush/milling museum and outside near the old church, they have placed some of the old milling machinery. Small as it is, its a museum and an interesting visit at that.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint.

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The awesome Dinosaur display at the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston!