Dear Indigo
on searching Australian Museums Online (AMOL) the following 'gold museums'
may be of interest
Camilla
CAMILLA McRAE
Inverell Cultural and Arts Council
PO Box 1110
INVERELL NSW 2360
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www.tomrobertsfestival.com.au
Tennant Creek Gold Stamp Battery Museum and Mining Hall of Fame
Description Mining in the Tennant Creek region, historical text and photos,
statues of two prospectors, interactive displays, rock collections and
original assay equipment and scales. Gold Stamp Battery original and still
working ten stamp battery gold are crushing plant.
Warrandyte Historical Society Museum
Outline: Warrandyte Historical Society Museum Social history museum Address
111 Yarra Street, Warrandyte, Vic Postal Address PO Box 67Warrandyte Vic
3113 Telephone (03) 9844 4176
Description The Museum collection features items relating to local history.
The main displays are of photographs and some artefacts mainly relating to
the area's gold mining history.
Sovereign Hill
Outline: Sovereign Hill Outdoor museum Address Magpie Street, Ballarat, VIC
Postal Address c/- Sovereign Hill Post OfficeBallarat VIC 3350 Telephone
(053) 311944 Facsimile (053) 311528 website http://www.sovereignhill.com.au
Description Sovereign Hill is an ... Its principle components are: a
representation of the Diggings and township of Ballarat in the period 1851
to 1861 based on meticulous research; a quartz mining museum on the site of
the Sovereign Quartz mine consisting of above-ground mining plant and below
ground mining museum; the Gold Museum Ballarat which houses a collection of
gold in alluvial and nugget form and which has both long term and short term
exhibitions illustrating the social history of Ballarat.
Western Australian Museum, Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Outline: Western Australian Museum, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Social history museum
Address 17 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, WA Postal Address PO Box 25Kalgoorlie
WA 6430 Telephone (08) 9021 8533 Facsimile (08) 9091 2791 email
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Description The Museum is a branch of the Western Australian Museum. The
gold vault with the priceless WA State gold collection is the centrepiece of
the display.
Dunolly Museum
Outline: Dunolly Museum Social history museum Address 77 Broadway, Dunolly,
Vic Postal Address 77 BroadwayDunolly Vic 3472 Telephone 03 5468 1516
Description The collection includes local photographs and mining equipment,
firearms, gold nugget replicas and genealogical records
Gympie and District Historical and Gold Mining Museum
Outline: Gympie and District Historical and Gold Mining Museum Historic
display / Historic site / House museum Address 215 Brisbane Road, Gympie,
Qld Postal Address 215 Brisbane RoadGympie Qld 4570 Telephone 07 5482 3995
Facsimile 07 5482 3995 The Museum
Description The museum is situated in ten hectares of parkland and houses a
vast display of mining era memorabilia: housing, ... It also features a
railway museum and a light horse museum.
Hannans North Historic Mining Reserve
Outline: Hannans North Historic Mining Reserve Historic site / Outdoor
museum Address Broad Arrow Road, Kalgoorlie, WA Postal Address PO Box
829Kalgoorlie WA 6430 Telephone 08 9091 4074 Facsimile 08 9091 4075 The
Description Led by experienced tour guides, visitors may tour the 1893 ...
The seven hectare site displays a strong collection of mining memorabilia,
including six historic headframes and numerous heritage buildings; plus
items to establish `texture' in parts of the site.
Moe Historical Society
Outline: Moe Historical Society Historic display Address 2 High Street, Moe,
VIC Postal Address Box 201Moe VIC 3852 Telephone 03 5633 1326 The Museum
Description Indoor museum and meeting room. Items of historic interest on
display eg. Domestic items, gold and coal mining items.
Venus Gold Battery
Outline: Venus Gold Battery Historic site Address Millchester Road, Charters
Towers, QLD Postal Address PO Box 149Charters Towers QLD 4820 Telephone 07
4787 2222
Description The Venus Mill is possibly the only stamp mill of its size and
condition left anywhere. Built in 1872, one of the first three in Charters
Towers.
Stock Exchange Assay Room
Outline: Stock Exchange Assay Room Historic display / Historic site Address
Mosman Street, Charters Towers, Qld Postal Address PO Box 149Charters Towers
Qld 4820 Telephone (07) 4787 2374
Description The Assay Room is a museum of Charters Towers mining history.
The most prized items are the two original mining leases signed by Hugh
Mosman, who in the company of George Clarke, John Fraser and Mosman's
horseboy, Jupiter Mosman found the first gold in Charters Towers.
Golden Threads Exhibition > Work > Gold & tin
Outline: Many also experienced the anti-Chinese hostility of European
miners. An unidentified Chinese miner testing wash for tin, Great Britain
Mine, Emmaville, 1899.
Art trails: Prospecting the Goldfields
Outline: The Ararat Gallery boasts one of the major contemporary fibre and
textile art collections in Australia's regional galleries. The Ballarat Fine
Art Gallery is Australia's oldest regional gallery and is renowned for
its Colonial and Heidelberg School collections.
O'Connor Museum
Outline: O'Connor Museum Social history museum Address Mundaring Weir Road,
Mundaring, WA Postal Address PO Box 293Mundaring WA 6073 Telephone (08) 9295
2455 Facsimile (08) 9295 2455
Description The museum graphically portrays the history of gold discoveries
in Western Australia, the urgent need for water and the subsequent building
of the pipeline to the Goldfields, and the life of the engineer ... The
display comprises photographs of relics from early gold mining days and
crude equipment used in the search for gold, together with photographs
showing the towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder in the grip of gold fever.
Herons Reef Historic Gold Diggings
Outline: Herons Reef Historic Gold Diggings Historic site Address Fryers
Road, Fryerstown, Vic Postal Address RSD Church StreetFryerstown Vic 3451
Telephone (03) 5473 4387 Facsimile (03) 5470 5106
Description These authentic gold diggings date from the 1850s to the 1930s
and are classified by the National Trust of Australia(... On the property
there is a considerable variety of mining remains including small vertical
and underlay shafts, adits, open cut mines, quarries, bank sluicing,
surfacing, dams, water races, a miner's cottage, blacksmiths shop
foundations, house and battery sites which display many of the facets of
small to medium scale mining.
Clunes Museum
Outline: Clunes Museum Social history museum Address 36 Fraser Street,
Clunes, Vic Postal Address 36 Fraser StreetClunes Vic 3370 Telephone (03)
5345 3592
Description The Museum houses a collection of memorabilia from Victoria's
first gold town, and displays with agricultural , gold, civic and cultural
themes. A research section offers a wide range of records dating back to the
early 1860s.
Central Deborah Gold Mine
Outline: Central Deborah Gold Mine Historic site Address 76 Violet Street,
Bendigo, Vic Postal Address 76 Violet StreetBendigo Vic 3550 Telephone (03)
5443 8322 Facsimile (03) 5443 8341
Description This mine ceased productive operations in 1954, but has now been
restored to an operational level and developed as a living museum. Machinery
operations can be observed and visitors can join tours of the mine, which is
61 metres underground.
Gold Museum, Ballarat
Outline: Gold Museum, Ballarat Social history museum Address Bradshaw
Street, Ballarat, Vic Postal Address c/o Sovereign Hill Post OfficeBallarat
Vic 3350 Telephone (03) 5331 1944 Facsimile (03) 5332 9052 website
http://www.sovereignhill.com.au
Description The Museum performs a dual role as the home of the noted Simon
collection of gold nuggets and coins, and as the ... Exhibitions on the
history of the region are presented, covering such areas as Koori cultural
heritage and the social history of Ballarat during and after the gold rush
of the 1850's.
Grubb Shaft Gold and Heritage Museum
Outline: Grubb Shaft Gold and Heritage Museum Social history museum /
Historic site / Outdoor museum Address West Street, Beaconsfield, Tas Postal
Address PO Box 10Beaconsfield Tas 7270 Telephone (03) 6383 1473 Facsimile
(03) 6383 1540 email mailto:[log in to unmask] website
http://www.wtc.tas.gov.au
Description The museum is located in the repaired ruins of large ornate
brick engine houses, built in 1905 for the Beaconsfield "Tasmania" gold
mine.
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From: Harry Needham <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: GOLD/ORO
> I haven't been following this thread but wonder if anyone has mentioned
the
> interesting Gold Museum at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, VIC, in the old Oz?
>
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