Mount Morgan Historical Museum

A trip to Central Queensland would not be complete without a visit to the Mount Morgan Historical Museum. It houses a comprehensive collection of items that were used in many aspects of Australian life.

MUSEUM SHOP

The Museum Shop offers a wide selection of gifts
and souvenirs for children and adults.

ABORIGINAL ARTIFACTS

The collection includes grinding stones, axe heads, spears (including a marvelous fishing spear), clubs and some photographs of the indigenous people that the early settlers encountered.

HOUSE-HOLD ITEMS

It will come as quite a shock to young members of the present generation who are used to the convenience of modern appliances to see the early mechanical devices used to wash clothes, including the common wash tub. The hand-turned mangle and stove-heated flat irons will also be of interest.
The two wood-burning stoves will remind many of the wood gathering and cutting chores of a bygone era. Among the other items to be seen are hanging food safes, a lovely old wash-basin, hip bath, treadle sewing machine and an ice chest.

TRANSPORT

The museum houses a fine collection of horse-drawn buggies, wagons and carts as well as a lovely old sulky. Also featured is a small billy-goat sulky, along with saddle and harness equipment, branding irons and yokes. The first motor hearse in Mount Morgan, a 1921 Buick, is on view as is one of Mount Morgans earliest fire engines.

PHOTOGRAPHS

The walls of the museum are adorned with over 500 photographs that trace the history of the mine from its earliest days when gold-bearing rocks were dropped from the top of the mountain down a chute to the later large-scale open-cut operations. There are also many photos of the social and sporting activities in earlier Mount Morgan.

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