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Stanthorpe Heritage Museum

TIME : 2016/2/18 14:28:18

This curio-crammed museum on Stanthorpe's northern outskirts gives a comprehensive insight into the town’s tin-mining and grazing past. Well-preserved old buildings from the 1800s include a slab-timber jail, a shepherd’s hut and a school house. There’s a moving display on Stanthorpe's wartime losses, and an exhibit featuring ingenious home-made ‘make-do’ pieces – toys, kitchen items, pillow cases, curtains...