Friday, 11 May 2012

Gulgong Pioneers Museum Celebrates 50th Birthday


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.

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.

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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