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| Gulgong Pioneers Museum |
One of Australia’s
best regional museums celebrate its 50th birthday on 7 April this year. It was
the busiest day since the museum began 50 years ago, with more than a thousand
people entering the museum.
Museum volunteers were dressed in heritage costumes, along
with members of the Musical and Dramatic Society, while Maurice Gaudry and
Darrel Honeysett sat telling yarns around an unlit campfire with a billy.
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| Gulgong Pioneers Museum |
Visitors saw demonstrations of butter churning, antique
printing equipment being used, and spinning in the museum’s old stone cottage. Classes
were held in the old schoolhouse and sheep shearing was a popular attraction, along
with the Step Up dancers and Gulgong
Public School’s Ten
Dollar Circus. Musical entertainment was provided by talents including Bob
Campbell, the Gulgong Singers and the Gulgong Orchestra.
This year will be a great time to visit the Gulgong Pioneers Museum
and see their impressive collections. Gulgong, in NSW Australia, is famous for being
the town depicted on the old $10 note
There is a huge and intriguing range of historic vehicles,
steam engines, gold mining artefacts, machines, clothing, needlework and
display rooms showing the living and working conditions of Gulgong’s pioneers.
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| Gulgong Pioneers Museum |
The Museum is based in the historic Times Bakery and through
gradual expansion now occupies almost two blocks of the town. It’s a truly
impressive collection, which includes an entire building dedicated to vintage
phonographs and recording machines.
Further information is available from Gulgong Historical
Society on (02) 6374-1513.
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