Passionate, kind staff are pleased to show you the wide range timeless pieces and illustrate a vivid image of all the areas Australias intricate history. Hands on demonstrations blended with the staffs lively sense of humour will leave you wandering about the simplicity of early...More

Like the Tardis, this museum is much bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. It is absolutely crammed with artefacts from a bygone era and requires much more time than we had allowed for it. We were fortunate to encounter the museum...More

A credit to the tireless volunteers who have turned a labour of love into a brilliant record of local history and the people whose families are remembered in the exhibits. For those of us who recognise artefacts from our childhood; its a trip down memory...More

The passion shown by volunteer staff shows through this recreated local village. We were surprised to find so many fragile and irreplaceable heirlooms, ceramics etc on display. Clearly visitors respect the effort in getting all the exhibits collected and arranged. There was a lot of...More

Quite deceptive - from the front, quite small but once you wander through you appreciate the scale. So much history to enjoy, it is both a sense of history and a touch of nostalgia of a bygone age. Although most of the buildings and exhibits...More

An unxpected surprise. After doing big day tours we were looking for something quiet this day. While at breakfast we saw Things to do in Hervey Bay and found the museum listed. We thought this will do for an hour... forget it You could do...More

My wife and my first time in Hervey Bay struggling to find things to do so we ended up at the museum. Certainly not an option we would ever consider as museums are not our thing. We arrived at this museum and were advised there...More

What a fantastic museum ,great for those history buffs and I loved seeing pictures of my ancestors who were early settlers in the bay.

This local museum is to be applauded for the variety of day-to-day items assembled from the homes of settlers to the region. Older visitors will remember most of these items in their Grandparents homes or on their properties. Hand butter churns and common cooking utensils...More

Our family of 6 thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Our children (12,9,7 and baby) were so engaged that we found the 1.5 hours we had allowed was far too short to do the village justice. The volunteers who greeted us were immensely knowledgable and knew just...More