Category: Historical Museum
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Shear Outback Hay New South Wales
Shear Outback Hay New South Wales Shear Outback, located in Hay, New South Wales, is an award-winning cultural centre dedicated to the Australian shearing industry. Established to formally recognize the immense contribution of shearers and the wool trade to the nation’s development, the facility offers visitors a detailed and active experience. Situated at the junction… Read more
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Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales
Dunera Museum Hay New South Wales The Dunera Museum in Hay explores one of Australia’s most unusual wartime stories. It sits in a restored railway station that once received more than two thousand refugees from Europe in 1940. These men travelled on the HMT Dunera after Britain sent them abroad as “enemy aliens.” However, most… Read more
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Yanga Woolshed Balranald New South Wales
The Yanga Woolshed stands beside the Murrumbidgee River, near Balranald in south-western New South Wales. Once part of a vast pastoral empire, it tells the story of Australia’s wool industry and rural endurance. The woolshed formed the heart of Yanga Station, which at its peak covered more than half a million acres. Sheep grazed across… Read more