Ambleside Park Benalla Costume and Pioneer Museum Knox Historical Society 14 Mair Street, Benalla VIC 3672 3 Olivebank Road, Ferntree Gully VIC 3156 t: (03) 5762 1749 t: (03) 9758 6722 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~benmus w: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~khsinc Hours: 9am - 5pm daily, closed Christmas Day, Hours: Sundays 1pm - 4pm Good Friday and Anzac Day morning and at other times by appointment Admission: Adult $4, Conc. & Groups $3, Child 50¢ Admission: Adult $5, Child $2 Collection Focus: Benalla and District History Collection Focus: The preservation, including Ned Kelly, Weary Dunlop, Captain Hector conservation and promoting of history, Waller and the early New Zealand Prime Minister, particularly that of Knox and the former Michael Savage, costume since 1770 and a 1960s shires of Berwick and Fern Tree Gully. miniature house. ’s Andrew Ross Museum Buda Historic Home and Garden Accredited Museums Kangaroo Ground Primary School 42 Hunter Street, Castlemaine VIC 3450 Main Road, Kangaroo Ground VIC 3097 t: (03) 5472 1032 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/arosskg/web/ w: www.budacastlemaine.org index.html Hours: Wed - Sat 12pm - 5pm, Sun 10am - 5pm, Hours: By appointment closed Good Friday and Christmas Day Admission: By donation Admission: Adult $10, Conc. $8, Child $4 (<5 Free), Collection Focus: The museum consists of 3 rooms Family $25, Garden only $7 of displays and an audio series of former district Collection Focus: An authentic house and garden residents talking of their experiences in the 1930s surviving from the gold rush era, home to the and 1940s. Displays focus on the writing of Andrew creative Leviny family for 118 years and houses Ross, the district’s first school master (1851-1876) their significant collection of art works. and the region’s enterprising Scottish farmers.

Australian Gallery of Sport Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and Olympic Museum 7 - 27 Snake Gully Drive, Bundoora VIC 3083 Gate 3, Cricket Ground t: (03) 9496 1060 , Jolimont VIC 3002 e: [email protected] t: (03) 9657 8879 w: www.bundoorahomestead.com e: [email protected] Hours: Wed - Fri 11am - 4pm, w: www.nsm.org.au www.mcc.org.au Sat & Sun 12pm - 5pm Hours: 10am – 5pm daily, except Christmas Day Admission: Free and Good Friday, with last admission at 4pm, Collection Focus: Built in 1899, this magnificent check website for hours during events Queen Anne style Federation mansion operates as Admission: Regular (non match days) an historic house, the City of Darebin art gallery Adult $15, Conc. $11, Family $50, Child (5-15yrs) $8 and cafe. Hosts a changing programme of Collection Focus: Objects relating to all sports contemporary art and craft exhibitions, public played in . lectures and art prizes.

Ballarat Tramway Museum Castlemaine Art Gallery Botanical Gardens, Ballarat VIC 3353 and Historical Museum t: (03) 5334 1580 14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine VIC 3450 e: [email protected] t: (03) 5472 2292 w: www.btm.org.au e: [email protected] Hours: Tram Operations: 12.30pm - 5pm w: www.castlemainegallery.com weekends, public holidays & school Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat, Sun holidays; other times by arrangement & public holidays 12pm - 5pm, closed Admission: Adult $3, Child $1.50 Christmas Day and Good Friday Collection Focus: Preserving Ballarat’s Admission: Adult $4, Conc. $3, Child $2 (<6 Free) Tramway heritage. Collection Focus: The Gallery specialises in Australian art, particularly major works of the late 1800s; the Golden Period of Australian painting, and the Edwardian era. Central Highlands Tourist Railway Como Historic House & Garden Foster and District Historical Society Midland highway, Daylesford VIC 3568 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Main Street, Foster VIC 3960 t: (03) 5348 1759 Cnr Williams Road and Lechlade Avenue, e: [email protected] e: [email protected] South Yarra VIC 3141 w: www.promaccom.com.au/Touring/foster/Museum w: www.dscr.com.au t: (03) 9827 2500 Hours: Every Sun & school holidays 10am - 4pm, Hours: Every Sunday e: [email protected] or by appointment, may close early depending on Admission: 35 minute return trip to Musk; w: www.comohouse.com.au weather Adult $10, Conc. $9, Child $8, Family $25, Hours: Summer: 10am - 4pm daily, Admission: Adult $3, Conc. $2, Child (<15yrs) 50¢ toddlers ride free Winter: Wed, Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm Collection Focus: Local history, timber, gold and Collection Focus: Our restored heritage trains Admission: Adult $12, Conc. $9, various. take you for a ride through the beautiful scenic Child (<14yrs) $6.50, Family $30 countryside and forest of the Central Highlands, Collection Focus: Boasting one of Melbourne’s to the highest operating railway station in Victoria. finest gardens, an inspiring historic mansion and an impressive collection of antique furniture.

Churchill Island Heritage Farm Creswick Museum Gippsland Regional Maritime Museum Phillip Island Tourist Road, Newhaven VIC 3925 70 - 72 Albert Street, Creswick VIC 3353 (Port Albert) t: (03) 5956 6690 t: (03) 5345 2845 Tarraville Road, Port Albert VIC 3971 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] t: (03) 5183 2520 w: www.penguins.org.au w: www.creswickmuseum.org.au w: http://yarrampa.customer.netspace.net.au/ Hours: 10am - 4.30pm daily, closed Christmas Day Hours: Weekends and public holidays 11am - pamm.html Admission: Adult $10.60, Conc. $7.40, 3.30pm, tours by arrangement (10 minimum) Hours: Sept - May 10.30am - 4pm daily, Child (<15yrs) $5.30, Family $26.50 Admission: $4, tour $3, tour/town $5, June - August, weekends and school holidays Collection Focus: Boasts an historic working Research Centre $10 for 3 hours only, 10.30am - 4pm farm with ‘hands on’ farming demonstrations Collection Focus: Town and district within the 1934 Admission: Adult $5, Conc. $4, Child $1 reminiscent of a bygone era. Meet the farm Shire Boundary. The collection covers pioneers, Collection Focus: Significant items from animals, relax in the cafe, enjoy the water gold mining, farming and social history, with an Gippsland’s maritime history are housed in the views, stroll amongst heritage buildlings excellent art collection of Colonial Goldfield Art, 1861 Bank of Victoria building and in the John and lovely gardens. Lindsay family and Victor Litherland. Irving Archives, a former CBC bank office.

Clunes Museum Dromkeen Golden Dragon Museum 36 Fraser Street, Clunes VIC 3370 National Centre for Picture Book Art 1 - 11 Bridge Street, Bendigo VIC 3550 t: (03) 5345 3592 1012 Kilmore Road, Riddells Creek VIC 3431 t: (03) 5441 5044 w: www.clunesmuseum.org t: (03) 5428 6799 e: [email protected] Hours: Sat, Sun & public holidays 11am - 4pm, e: [email protected] w: www.goldendragonmuseum.org school holidays Sat, Sun & Mon 11am - 4pm, w: www.scholastic.com.au Hours: 9.30am - 5pm daily, except Christmas Day Winter holidays Sat, Sun & Mon 11am - 3pm Hours: Tue - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 4pm Admission: Adult $10, Conc. $8, or by appointment Admission: Free Child (5 -14yrs) $5, Family $25 Admission: Adult $3, Child (<15yrs) Free Collection Focus: The Dromkeen homestead Collection Focus: The collection, preservation Collection Focus: Kitchen displays of domestic houses a world recognised picture book art and care of materials of historical and cultural items, a replica of a miners cottage parlour, collection and gardens. significance to the Chinese Community, particularly agricultural, mining and woodwork tools, items relevant to the Goldfields region of Victoria. Interknit Knitting Mill and the Naval Cannon presented to the Borough of Clunes, by the Victorian Navy.

Cohuna & District Historical Society Essendon Hall of Fame The Gold Museum 2A Cullen Street, Cohuna VIC 3568 Essendon Football Club Bradshaw Street, Ballarat VIC 3350 t: (03) 5456 2345 Napier Street, Essendon VIC 3040 t: (03) 5337 1107 e: [email protected] t: (03) 9230 0351 e: [email protected] w: http://members.cybanet.net.au/cdhs e: [email protected] w: www.sovereignhill.com.au/museum Hours: Mon 10am - 12pm, Fri 1pm - 4pm w: www.essendonfc.com.au Hours: Daily 9.30am to 5.30pm, open until 6pm or by appointment Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10.30am - daylight saving time, closed Christmas Day Admission: Adult $2 3.30pm, other times by appointment Admission: Adult $9.70, Conc. $7.80, Child $5.20, Collection Focus: Local history. Admission: Adult $5, Conc. $4 & $1, Family $12, Family $25.80 EFC members and Friends of Hall of Fame Free Collection Focus: Gold and gold mining history Collection Focus: Broad collection of objects and of the region, social history of Ballarat, several images relating to the origins, history and people specialised collections relating to Chinese associated with the Essendon FC from 1874 decorative arts and postcards. to the present day. Horsham Regional Art Gallery Koorie Heritage Trust Nagambie Historical Museum 80 Wilson Street, Horsham VIC 3400 295 King Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 344 High Street, Nagambie VIC 3608 t: (03) 5362 2888 t: (03) 8622 2600 t: (03) 5794 2528 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.horshamartgallery.com.au w: www.koorieheritagetrust.com Hours: Every Wednesday 9.30am - 12.30pm, Hours: Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm, Hours: 10am – 4pm, 7 days first Saurday of the month 9am - 12.30pm Sat & Sun 1pm - 4.30pm Admission: Gold coin donation Admission: Gold coin donation Admission: See website for details Collection Focus: The Koorie Heritage Trust Collection Focus: James Forbes exhibition, Collection Focus: The collection is built around is a not-for-profit Aboriginal community including locally produced machinery, three focal points: Australian Photography, organisation that aims to protect, preserve and Stawell Gift permanent display and local the Wimmera region and the Mack Jost Collection. promote the living culture of Aboriginal people displays changed of south-eastern Australia. every three months.

Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne Cricket Club Nepean Historical Society 15 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick VIC 3185 Museum and Library Old Mechanics Institute Building t: (03) 9528 1985 Gate 3, Melbourne Cricket Ground 827 Melbourne Road, Sorrento VIC 3943 e: [email protected] Yarra Park, Jolimont VIC 3002 t: (03) 5984 0255 w: www.jhc.org.au t: (03) 9657 8879 e: [email protected] Hours: Mon - Thu 10am - 4pm, Fri 10am - 2pm, e: [email protected] w: www.nepeanhistoricalsociety.asn.au Sun 12pm - 4pm w: www.mcc.org.au www.nsm.org.au Hours: Sat & Sun, and most school and Admission: Donations welcome Hours: 10am - 5pm daily (except Good Friday and public holidays, 1.30pm - 4.30pm Collection Focus: Material related to the Christmas Day), last admission at 4pm Admission: $5 Holocaust (1933 - 1945) as well as the immediate Admission: Regular (non match days) Adult $15, Collection Focus: Local history of Portsea, Post-war period. The organisation collects Conc. $11, Child (5-15yrs) $8, Family $50, Sorrento and Blairgowrie. documents, photographs, textiles and MCC members Free; includes entry to NSM memorabilia from the period. Collection Focus: Artefacts, paintings, rare porcelain and items of cricketana.

The Jewish Museum Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West The 26 Alma Road, St Kilda VIC 3182 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) t: (03) 8534 3600 Van Ness Avenue, Maribyrnong VIC 3032 377 Russell Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 e: [email protected] t: (03) 9318 1039 t: (03) 8663 7228 w: www.jewishmuseum.com.au e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Hours: Tue - Thur 10am - 4pm, Sun 10am - 5pm, w: www.livingmuseum.org.au w: oldmelbournegaol.com.au closed Jewish Holy days Hours: Tue - Thurs 10am - 4pm Hours: 9.30am - 5pm daily, closed Good Friday Admission: Adult $10, Conc. $5, Family $20 Admission: Free and Christmas Day Collection Focus: The Jewish Museum of Collection Focus: The Living Museum was Admission: Adult $21, Conc. $16, Child $11, Australia is a community museum, which aims initiated with an experimental brief to use Family $49 to explore and share the Jewish experience in innovative techniques in involving the local Collection Focus: Step back in time and walk Australia and benefit Australia’s diverse society. community in researching, documenting and the road to the gallows in a 19th century prison, presenting heritage and history. be arrested in a modern-day Police Station or put yourself on trial in court.

Kyneton Museum Museum Victoria Port Fairy Historical Society 67 Piper Street, Kyneton VIC 3444 Immigration Museum, , 30 Gipps Street, Port Fairy VIC 3284 t: (03) 5422 1228 t: (03) 5568 2263 e: [email protected] 11 Nicholson Street, VIC 3053 e: [email protected] w: www.mrsc.vic.gov.au t: 13 11 02 w: http://historicalsociety.port-fairy.com Hours: Fri - Sun 11am - 4pm, or by appointment e: go to form at www.museumvictoria.com.au Hours: Sat, Sun, Wed, public holidays Admission: Adult $5.50, Conc./Student $3.50, w: www.museumvictoria.com.au (excl. Labour Day) 2pm - 5pm, Child $1.80, Family $10.50 Hours: 10am - 5pm daily, closed Good Friday from mid July - 1 Sept, Sat only 2pm - 4pm Collection Focus: Housed in an (1856) Bank of and Christmas Day Admission: Adult $3, Conc. $2, Child 50¢ New South Wales building, the original Admission: Adult $8, Conc. & Child (3-16yrs) Free Collection Focus: Permanent and temporary banking chamber features changing exhibitions. Collection Focus: Explore life in Victoria, from our exhibitions on themes such as the early The musem also features an upstairs bank natural environment to our culture and history. pioneers of the district, the whaling era in manager’s residence, stables, servant’s kitchen, Port Fairy, local shipping and wrecks along laundry, Theaden Cottage, carriages and the coast. historical agricultural equipment. Queenscliffe Historical Museum Shepparton Art Gallery Victoria Police Museum 49 Hesse Street, Queenscliff VIC 3225 Welsford Street, World Trade Centre t: (03) 5258 2511 Eastbank Centre, Shepparton VIC 3630 637 Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC 3005 e: [email protected] t: (03) 5832 9861 t: (03) 9247 5214 w: www.queenscliffe-history.org e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Hours: 2pm - 4pm daily w: www.sheppartonartgallery.com.au w: www.police.vic.gov.au/museum Admission: Adult $5, Conc. $4, Child Free, Hours: 10am - 4pm daily Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm large group $3 per person public holidays 1pm - 4pm, closed Good Friday Admission: Free Collection Focus: Photographs, recorded history, and Christmas Day - New Years Day (inclusive) Collection Focus: The Victoria Police Museum is lace, textiles and artefacts. Admission: Free home to a darker side of Victorian history. With Collection Focus: A permanent exhibition that tells tales of colourful criminals and the gallant work the story of Australian Ceramics; in addition of police in risky situations, the museum offers a to the gallery’s collection of Australian paintings unique view into the execution of Victorian crimes and works on paper. and the aftermath of disasters.

Rippon Lea Estate Sovereign Hill Woady Yaloak Historical Society National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Ballarat, VIC 3350 19 Heales Street, Smythesdale VIC 3351 Rippon Lea Estate t: (03) 5337 1100 t: (03) 5342 8754 152 Hotham Street, Elsternwick VIC 3185 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] t: (03) 9523 6095 w: www.sovereignhill.com.au w: www.woadyyaloakhistoricalsociety.org.au e: [email protected] Hours: 10am - 5pm daily, except Christmas Day, Hours: Wed 9.30am - 4.30pm, w: www.ripponleaestate.com.au during daylight saving, until 5.30pm last Sunday of the month 1pm – 5pm Hours: Sep - April, 7 days a week 10am - 5pm, Admission: Adult $41, Conc. $32.80, and by appointment May - August, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm Child (5-15) $18.70, Family $103.50, Single Family Admission: Gold coin donation Admission: Adult $12, Conc. $9, Child $6.50, (1 Adult and up to 3 children) $74.50, Student $17 Collection Focus: Local history. Family $30 Collection Focus: Interpretation of the mid 19th Collection Focus: Original objects provenanced century goldrushes in central Victoria and the to Rippon Lea, either from the Nathan/Jones or impact of the great 19th century gold discoveries Sargood families and objects of the period. on the growth of Ballarat and Victoria.

Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum Stawell Historical Society Worsley Cottage Complex Loch Street, Beechworth VIC 3747 44 - 46 Longfield Street, Stawell VIC 3380 Maryborough Midlands Historical Society t: (03) 5728 8067 t: (03) 5358 3789 3 Palmerston Street, Maryborough VIC 3465 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] t: (03) 5461 2800, (03) 5464 1063, (03) 5461 1458 w: www.beechworth-index.com.au/burkemus w: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shsinc e: [email protected] Hours: 10am - 5pm daily Hours: Wed & Thurs 11am - 4pm, w: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mbhs Admission: Adult $6, Conc. $4, Family $12 other times by arrangement, Hours: Tues & Thurs 10am - 12pm, Sun 2pm - 4pm Collection Focus: Discover the early collections closed Christmas and New Year’s Day Admission: Charges apply of the museum, including Aboriginal artefacts Admission: $2 (voluntary) Collection Focus: The Worsley Cottage Museum from south-eastern Australia purchased in Collection Focus: Local and District History. Complex includes the Worsley Historical Cottage 1868 and an unusual natural history collection 1894, Joyce’s Squatter’s Hut, outdoor displays, of the 1860s. resources centre and Cottage Garden.

Schwerkolt Cottage and Museum Complex Victorian Jazz Archive Yackandandah Whitehorse Historical Society and District Historical Society Deep Creek Road, Mitcham VIC 3132 15 , Wantirna South VIC 3152 21 High Street, Yackandandah VIC 3749 t: (03) 98734 946 t: (03) 9800 5535 t: (02) 6027 0627 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ndhsinc w: www.vicjazzarchive.org.au w: http://yackandandahmuseum.wordpress.com Hours: Sat, Sun & public holidays 2pm - 5pm Hours: Tue & Fri 10am - 3pm Hours: Victorian school holidays 7 days a Admission: Free Admission: Groups of 20 or more $10 per person, week 11am to 4pm, outside these times Collection Focus: An 1884 original pioneer’s including a (prearranged) live jazz performance Wed - Sun 11am - 4pm stone cottage in a garden setting surrounded by Collection Focus: Proactively collecting, archiving Admission: By donation 2.25 hectares of bushland. Other buildings on and disseminating Australian Jazz. Collection Focus: Yackandandah and District the property include a slab barn, smithy, a stone social history: objects, photographs and smokehouse and a wine cellar. documents. Yarra Ranges Regional Museum Museums Australia 35 - 37 Castella Street, Lilydale VIC 3140 t: (03) 9294 6313 e: [email protected] Museums Australia is a membership organisation w: www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Things_To_Do/ providing national and state services for the Yarra_Ranges_Regional_Museum Hours: See website for details museum and gallery sector. Admission: Free For more information: www.mavic.asn.au Collection Focus: Stories of the Yarra Ranges and its history including Dame Nellie Melba. Who Are We? Museums Australia (Victoria) Melbourne Museum (03) 8341 7344 We are the Victorian branch of Museums Carlton Gardens, Carlton Regional Freecall Australia (MAVic) — the national association for PO Box 385 1800 680 082 the museum and gallery sector. Carlton South, Victoria 3053 www.mavic.asn.au What is MAP? What Do We Do? MAP is a peer review program run by Museums Australia (Victoria), funded by Arts Victoria, and Our professional services for the Victorian supported by a large number of Victorian museums. museum community include:

To become accredited, museums spend 2 - 3 years • advice on museum matters developing procedures, policies and practice to meet • information resources recognised museum standards. For more information: • grants for museum projects www.mavic.asn.au/museum_accreditation_program • museum accreditation • networking • professional development • seminars and workshops

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Shepparton Yackandandah Beechworth Horsham Museums Australia (Victoria) supports the development of Benalla Maryborough Bendigo Nagambie Stawell quality museums, collections care, knowledge and specialised Castlemaine Daylesford Kyneton Clunes skills for museum work. We support people from small and Creswick Riddells Creek Ballarat large museums in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Smythesdale Victoria. Port Fairy Foster Philip Island Port Albert Our services include professional development opportunities for paid staff, volunteers, independent contractors and others who are interested in museums. To join go to: http://www.museumsaustralia.org.au/site/members.php