The Museum is open by appointment. If you wish to visit us please contact John or Kerrie on (02) 6297 2730, if unanswered leave a message including your phone number.
In the meantime, please enjoy a short online visit to our museum…
At the Queanbeyan Museum we tell the stories of our region and the people who lived here in the days before Australia became an independent nation, right up until the present day.
The Queanbeyan Historical Museum is located in the historic Police Sergeant’s Residence, 10 Farrer Pl, Queanbeyan, constructed in 1876.
Queanbeyan Museum is open 1-4 most weekends subject to volunteers availability (except for Christmas, Easter and public Holidays). Admission is Free.
The museum is usually closed for Christmas and New Year.
Telephone: 02 6169 6213 during opening hours 1pm-4pm Saturdays and Sundays.
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The Museum has a strong focus on the history of Queanbeyan and surrounding district, with a broad collection of over 3,500 items that includes furniture, textiles, technological objects, costumes, pictures, maps, objects, and photographs. There is currently an active programme of changing exhibitions with regular opening hours and regular events.
Take the journey with us:
Explore
The Museum’s 10 galleries and extensive outdoor areas allow visitors to explore topics like:
The Ngambri people before Europeans arrived
How did Queanbeyan develop?
Bushrangers and Larrikins
Stories From a Country Town – Queanbeyan during WW1 1914-1918
The Wash House – cleaning our clothes and ourselves
See
See an original Both Iron Lung used in Queanbeyan during the 1950s poliomyelitis epidemic;
See William Farrer’s parlour piano;
See a magnificent 30 metre mural of late 19th century Queanbeyan.
Events
The Museum hosts regular events with an historical theme.
Where are we?
Queanbeyan Museum, 10 Farrer Pl, Queanbeyan NSW
Opening Times
Open Saturday and Sunday 1-4 and other times by appointment.
Management
The Museum was opened by the Queanbeyan & District Historical Museum Society Inc. in 1969. It is currently operated by the Society in partnership with the Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council.
QDHMS Inc.
The Society meets regularly and publishes an historical journal, Quinbean.
Contact
For further information about the Museum or the Society contact:
Post: The Secretary QDHMS, P.O. Box 480 QUEANBEYAN NSW 2620
Email: qbynhmuseum@gmail.com
Tel: 02 6169 6213 during opening hours 1-4 Saturday and Sunday
Do you have a mailing list I could join ? AMPW
Hi Alison To keep up to date with our activities, you can follow us on Facebook, follow this blog or join. Membership forms are on this website under About Us. Regards QM
Hello! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone!
Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward to all your posts!
Keep up the outstanding work!
Hi Laverne That is great. If you’d like to keep up with our activities, follow the blog or follow us on Facebook. Regards QM
Visited your Museum last Sunday -very impressed with your exhibitions and the quality of your displays. The attendant was helpful and informative and good at “selling your Museum”. Disappointed to be a “lonely” visitor. How to we encourage more people to visit these “gems” which are telling great stories about our communities ?
Thanks so much. We have the website and a Facebook page and do have good attendances at our events. We would love to be open longer hours, but lack volunteers!
thx showing printing. used to bring in copy for “ccaesarian” the canberra uni paper in the ’80s
Thanks for feedback
Hi there 🙂 I’m after any information you might have on my grandmother’s brothers father Charles Crosdale whom lost his life the day my great uncle which was born around 1940 due to an air disaster.. I’ve been told he was the Piolet of an air plane that crashed into the mountains in Queanbeyan.. Any information you have would be fantastic thanks..
Thanks for your enquiry, will pass on to local researchers
Hello I was left a beautiful walnut upright piano, by my neighbour and friend, Mrs Faye Lawrence . The piano had been owned by Mrs Lawrence’s Grandmother and brought from England with her, by ship. T h e family was in Melbourne for a time then came to Qeanbeyan where they settled. Mrs Lawrences mother and and father married and for sometime, they joined the grandmother in playing as a band for weddings and dances and other occasions in Qeanbeyan
And Hi at the causeway Hall in Canberra. The piano sou l d b e loaded onto the hack of a truck and loaded and unloaded at venues. The family name was Dunshay, a name that is still prominent i n qeanbeyan. The piano is in very good condition, walnut with a steel frame and t hge original brass candle holders, all ebony and ivory keys are in fact. We no longer have room for this lovely gift from my friend and I promised her to first offer it to her family, who do not want it, and then to the museum, before t h e Salvation army. It is a lovely piece and of would bear insp ection. It is a piece of Queanbeyan community history
Hi Gina thanks for your offer, please let me know if no one has replied. I am new moderator.