Dowerin District Museum in Dowerin, Western Australia | Museum

Dowerin District Museum

Locality: Dowerin, Western Australia

Phone: +61 427 631 101

Address: 16 Cottrell Street 6461 Dowerin, WA, Australia

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24.01.2022 This was a Christmas present to a Dowerin boy in 1919 from the neighbours on the next farm. I bet he had a lovely time reading it. Thanks to all the generous people who think of the museum when it is time to divest yourself of Dowerin memorabilia.

19.01.2022 Saturday 10 November, to commemorate 100 years since the signing of the armistice, come and hear some of the stories of early Dowerin and the years of the First World War, with music and songs, a mix of professional actors and local amateurs, and supper. Can't ask for more!

18.01.2022 It is time to start talking about our music and drama production next April, Please Send Socks: stories from a small town and a Great War. Look out for more information as April gets closer. It should be fun, and moving, and best of all about Dowerin!

14.01.2022 Please Send Socks is a drama production with music and songs about the early days of Dowerin until the end of the First World War, drawing on a range of sources that tell the stories in the words of the people themselves. And what stories they are! The cast is a mix of professional actors from Perth and our local amateurs, with some of our choir members the Wheatbelt Warblers to help us sing along. And possibly a guest appearance from a well-known entertainer if you are... of a certain age! Although we are presenting the show to commemorate the centenary of the armistice in 1918, the emphasis is on storytelling and fun. The production will be a play reading as it means no one needs the added stress of learning lines. We have good reason to be proud of our local history; we are very proud to present this show for one night only. We would love to see it supported by current and previous locals. You’ll laugh and sing; you may have a tear in your eye; you’ll enjoy the supper. Saturday 10 November Uniting Church Hall 7pm Tickets from the Dowerin CRC See more

13.01.2022 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 15 September 2018 Trains, Wildflowers & Stargazing at Minnivale

12.01.2022 On Sunday 11 November 2018 around the world there will be commemorations of the centenary of the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War. For many the question is why we would bother. It was a very long time ago now, and why remember the past at all? Australia became a nation rather than a group of colonies in 1901; the flag was gazetted two years later. At the outbreak of war we were a very new nation. We were only 325 000 people in Western Australia... in 1914, 4.5 million people in the whole of the country. One million men were of an age that could volunteer and 417,000 did. We sent 330,000 overseas in an Australian uniform with an Australian flag. Troops set off from Australia expecting to be sent to the trenches in France, but in the meantime Turkey had entered the war as an ally of Germany, Russia needed to maintain access to the open ocean from its Black Sea ports through Turkish territory and the disaster known as Gallipoli was dreamed up. It wasn’t quite the first Australian action in the war, but it was a very significant early one. The Australians were there because the British didn’t think much of our fighting prowess, or that of the Turks. They were proved very wrong about both nations, and a legend was born in Australia. After Gallipoli Australian troops headed off to France and Belgium and we emerged four years later, victorious - but mourning 62,000 dead. Another 60,000 would die within a decade of returning to Australia. Facing unimaginable hardships, we maintained our democratic principles. We emerged Australians. Charles Bean was Australia’s First World War historian. He landed with the troops at Gallipoli on the first day and stayed with them at the front the entire war; it is said no one risked death more often than him and he witnessed it all. Bean wrote some moving, insightful words, and he pondered the qualities, the values seen in these men and women, those that he believed to be the best of our character; character that is informed by worthwhile, intrinsic virtues. Those fifteen values are inscribed in stained glass windows in the Hall of Memory in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra: RESOURCE CANDOUR DEVOTION CURIOSITY INDEPENDENCE COMRADESHIP ANCESTRY PATRIOTISM CHIVALRY LOYALTY COOLNESS CONTROL AUDACITY ENDURANCE DECISION A century after the end of the First World War our search for belonging, meaning and values for the world we want ends here. It is what we as Australians aspire to be, and it was refined in the fire of the First World War. That is one of many reasons we in Australia will commemorate 11 November, because the First World War helped define who we are and who we wish to be. I believe the past is not behind us; it is alongside us, always. Sometimes we just don’t notice it.

12.01.2022 We have a very poor quality copy of this photo of the Dowerin Co-op, so very pleased to have this excellent copy. The corner has changed a bit, no Strand Cafe, no petrol bowsers, but the building is very much unchanged on the outside.

11.01.2022 I came across these little gems which looking for something else -- of course. The Minnivale footy badge is almost 100 years old!

11.01.2022 A photo of the children in Standards 2 & 3 in 1950. Can anyone identify themselves or anyone else in there please?

10.01.2022 On the centenary of Villers-Bretonneux, 9 Dowerin names on the Australian National Memorial to the missing with no known graves at V-B; 3 in V-B Military Cemetery and 3 more down the road at Adelaide British Cemetery. We didn't tone down our commemorations; no one asked us to. We will remember them.

07.01.2022 We had a bit of a clean up at the Minnivale bakery block; lovely night for a bonfire, clear skies and stars coming out. Work camp did a great job beating back the weeds.

02.01.2022 There are orchids out, the dark skies and the Milky Way are stunning. Should be a great event.