Capella Pioneer Village Museum in Capella, Queensland | Museum

Capella Pioneer Village Museum

Locality: Capella, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4984 9425

Address: 1 Pioneer Street 4723 Capella, QLD, Australia

Website: www.capella.com.au/capella-pioneer-village

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25.01.2022 Concentration is required when you are part of the Make a Quilt in a Day team.

25.01.2022 The partly restored Bren Gun Carrier in action on Heritage Day.

25.01.2022 Come along and enjoy the new kitchen display in the Peak Downs homestead. Under COVID19 guidelines the Capella Pioneer Village is now open on Thursdays and Sundays between 9am and 1pm, with last entry at 12noon. Please use the hand sanitiser provided. No EFTPOS is available.

24.01.2022 Cleveland and Tyson on their version of tandem tractors during the Heritage Day Kids Pedal Powered Tractor Pull

24.01.2022 This mid 20th Century Fountain Line Tennis Court line marker belonged to the Anderson family who owned Capella Downs between 1964 and 2019. FountainLine was founded by John McGain in the early 1930s at Marrickville, Sydney, and continues to be an integrated manufacturer of grass line marking machines and line marking paints.

23.01.2022 Thank you again to all who have visited and supported the Capella Pioneer Village. Complying with COVID-19 conditions, we are now able to welcome visitors on Thursdays and Sundays between 9.00am and 1.00pm (last entry 12 noon). Our volunteer staff will ask you to fill in the necessary attendance paperwork that we will keep for 28 days before shredding and to use the hand sanitiser provided. Additional restored or refurbished historical objects are now on display within the ap...propriate collection sections. We hope you really enjoy your visit to learn of Capella and the Central Highlands past. Please note that we do not have EFTPOS facility. See more

21.01.2022 Tom McPhail pulls the Australian made Chamberlain Countryman 6 onto the tractor balance while one of our juniors pedals ‘Little John’ onto the Kids Tractor Balance during Heritage Day.

19.01.2022 This Massey Harris Type 2 3hp engine (1924-25) was secured from the Mackay hinterland in 2016. It has been restored and set up with a mystery double action pump. The Type 2 engines were built from 1923 to 1932 in sizes of 1, 3, 4 and 6 horsepower. They were a throttle governed engine which initially used an all brass mixer and a Webster Magneto when they first came out in 1923. In 1924, the ignition was changed to the Wico SK magneto and spark plug. In 1926, a conversion was made available to convert the 1923 models to the Wico system. Their appearance was more conventional for the time and they were set up to deliver full horsepower using either gas or kerosene.

18.01.2022 The Capella Craft Group have made this very striking patchwork quilt to raffle with proceeds to go to the Capella Pioneer Village. It measures 246x196cm and is very striking in a green, orange and cream colour palette. It has been professionally quilted by Emerald’s Evol Opperman, which gives it an extra-special finish. Tickets are $2 each and are on sale at the Capella Library, near the polling booth on Election Day and Peak Downs Street.

18.01.2022 Tony, Ben and Brent close the pressed bale of wool. The pressing work was done using the original woolpress from Gordon Downs station.

17.01.2022 The Capella Pioneer Village is now in recess for the ‘Wet Season’. We hope the rains come soon for all that need them. The Village will reopen in April 2020. We thank all who volunteered or supported the museum over the past year and wish all a happy and safe summer.

17.01.2022 Thank you to all who have visited and supported the Capella Pioneer Village over past years. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has forced temporary closure of the museum complex. Please stay as safe as you can during this time. Village restoration works continue remotely and images of restored objects will be posted here. We hope you will enjoy seeing and reading about the region’s revitalised history and will be able to look at it in person in the not too distant future. Take care.

16.01.2022 Don drives while Lydon provides backup for the Massey Harris 44K and 745 tandem tractors competing in the tractor pull event

16.01.2022 Unfortunately, the 2020 Capella Pioneer Village’s annual Heritage Day has had to be cancelled due to COVID19 conditions and restrictions. But we look forward to enjoying the demonstrations and exhibits, such as the Capella Craft Group’s great patchworking skills, again next year on the second Saturday of September 2021. We sincerely thank our local and regional communities, and our visitors from further away, for your continued support.

14.01.2022 Everyone who has helped the Pioneer Village out in any way are invited to a BBQ at the Village on 15 November at 6.30pm. The committee is looking for ideas and feedback on the annual Heritage Day and the museum complex in general. Meats will be supplied, just bring a salad or desert to share (smorgasbord style) and your own drinks. The kids in the photo saw the Massey Harris tandem tractors in operation in Heritage Day and reckoned they could do better!

13.01.2022 Massey Harris 44K and 745 tractors in tandem pulling Napier and Shearer scarifiers attached to a two tow pull during Heritage Day

13.01.2022 Brent using the shearing gear powered by an 100 year old Austral open crank engine that never misses a beat.

11.01.2022 Stuart learning to operate his grandfather’s Southern Cross boring plant under Neil’s expert tutelage

10.01.2022 OK. So we’re here. Map readers study the 1960s Queensland map on a wall of the Peak Downs homestead

09.01.2022 Littlies having fun with ducks.

09.01.2022 Phil Flohr puts his English made Ransomes garden tractor through its paces during the Capella Pioneer Village’s Heritage Day.

08.01.2022 Reg Garside aboard the 1927 Whippet he restored during the Heritage Day Parade.

03.01.2022 TRACTOR SAFETY AND OPERATIONS TRAINING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 In an effort to assist younger people to pick up good machinery habits so they can be safer on their home acreages and be able to participate at the Capella Pioneer Village we are going to carry out some tractor safety and operator training. The training will be nationally accredited course specifically designed for high school students.... Kerion Kelly is the qualified trainer for the day. Numbers will be limited to about ten students. The training will be for 4 to 5 hours at 9 am on Friday 18 September, 2020. We will supply the tractors and competent assistants for the trainer. The students need shoes, some SunSmart clothes including a hat, a water bottle and $5.50. As we don’t have blue cards or the like, there will be no drop and run. A parent or guardian must stay for the duration of the course. If your child is attending high school and is interested please contact us through this page or 0427 638 866.

01.01.2022 The Capella Pioneer Village in now in recess for the ‘Wet Season’. We thank all who have visited and supported the museum during this very trying time of COVID19 and wish everyone a safe and Happy Christmas and New Year. We hope good rains come soon for all. The Village will reopen in April 2021. A great big THANK YOU to our wonderful team of volunteers who continue to welcome visitors, restore or refurbish donated treasures and maintain the buildings and exhibits. Well done All.