Tour: Churchill Island ( Nature Parks) Friday 20 November 2009 from 8.30am –5pm Meet at Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens, MELBOURNE

Experience a piece of ’s heritage on this scenic island, where you can have a behind the scenes tour of Victoria’s oldest working farm. The restored farmhouse and cottages provide information on early Australian settlers and farming practices. The island has been farmed since the 1850s and in 1872 was purchased by Samuel Amess, former Mayor of Melbourne.

Churchill Island Booking Churchill Island is MAP Accredited and managed by the Phillip Island Nature • Members $60.00 Park for the Victorian Conservation Trust. It was privately owned for 110 years non-members $90.00 and is now on the Register for the National Estate, the Victorian Heritage Register and is listed by the National Trust. Churchill Island is the fi rst • Lunch and refreshments provided European settlement in Victoria and the only island in the state that • Book early as places are is a museum. limited. Bookings by Tuesday 17 Churchill Island Heritage Farm is the oldest working farm in Victoria and November 2009 has unique qualities as a museum site. In 1872 the island was purchased by former Lord mayor of Melbourne, Samuel Amess, who built a homestead • Booking forms can be that is currently preserved as a house museum. The island has a circuit track downloaded from our website. with views across and stops include a heritage garden, bird Fax completed booking forms to observatory, woodland and mangroves. Dimity on (03) 8341 7333 Edited excerpt from INSITE, September-October 2008. • Let us do the driving! www.mavic.asn.au

Museums (Victoria) is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.