Ripley’s Believe It Or Not has a long history, dealing with bizarre events and items that makes you wonder if some are real. Robert Ripley started with the concept over 100 years ago in 1919 as a cartoon feature in a newspaper. It is the television shows I remember first discovering Ripley’s Believe It Or … Read more
The Dayboro Shed Antiques is like a museum where the whole collection is available for sale, with a variety of antiques and collectable items that is sure to capture the interest of just about anyone. This isn’t like some antique shops where the items for sale are just things from a house getting rid of … Read more
The historical Brennan & Geraghty’s Store in Maryborough is a store museum that operated as a general store for over 100 years. Opening for trade in 1871, it continued until 1972 with its unsold contents remaining when the doors were closed. A demolition order had been put in place by the Maryborough City Council. It … Read more
Cobb & Co Museum is located in Toowoomba with displays from the horse-drawn era. Not just Cobb & Co carriages, the collection includes farming wagons, delivery carts, and the landau, the Rolls Royce of Carriages. It is fitting that the Cobb & Co Museum represents the end of the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive , … Read more
Mt Bauple Museum is in the middle of the Mount Bauple township, between Maryborough and Gympie on the Bauple Tourist Drive 6 . The museum has brilliantly been built on a disused road reserve. A much better use or the land that otherwise may have been left bare or perhaps a picnic table or two … Read more
Hinkler House was built in Thornhill Estate in Southampton, England in 1925. A modest detached house, he named the home “Mon Repos” to celebrate the beachside location of the same name in his Australian hometown of Bundaberg where he had fuelled his love of flight. Hinkler House is physically separate from Hinkler Hall of Aviation … Read more
Hinkler Hall of Aviation is a museum built as a tribute to aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler. Bert made record-breaking flights locally in the 1920s and flew the first solo flight from England to Australia. The museum is housed in a building designed to look like an aircraft wing. It contains several aviation collections large and … Read more
Note: The Rosewood Railway has paused operations while work is undertaken. See the Rosewood Railway Facebook page for updated information. Kunkala is a brown sign outside of The Rosewood Railway, one of two railway stations operated by the railway museum, the other is Cabanda Station. Cabanda Station doesn’t have a brown sign for it but … Read more
Das Neumann Haus is a house museum in the country town of Laidley. Built in 1893 by German immigrant Hermann Newmann, it has been refurnished in the style of the 1930s. Hermann Newmann migrated with his parents and brother in 1884, meeting his wife Annie in Ipswich in 1885. Annie Schermuly, of English and German … Read more
Laidley Pioneer Village and Museum was established in 1972, it is Queensland’s first heritage village style museums. Get the feel of rural life from the early 1800’s in Queensland. The Laidley District Historical Society have developed a village complex with a good insight into what life was like. Laidley was the first stop by coach … Read more
