Excell Blacksmith & Engineering Museum in Tumby Bay, South Australia | Engineering service

Excell Blacksmith & Engineering Museum

Locality: Tumby Bay, South Australia

Phone: +61 427 215 293

Address: 6 Barraud St 5605 Tumby Bay, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.excellmuseum.org.au

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25.01.2022 All ready for the Tumby Bay Christmas Pageant. Fingers crossed for another award winning float! Thanks to Caves for the donation of the historic road roller. Drive safely Christmas Elf Ian.

22.01.2022 A big thanks to Anthony Cave for generously volunteering his time and incredible skills to carefully extract the old septic tank and put it back in the ground elsewhere. He also used his machinery to build up and level the area. The site is now good to go for our newly acquired shed to be built out the back of the existing blacksmiths workshop.

21.01.2022 Were open once again this Sunday the 26th of march 2pm - 4pm. Come in and have a look around, have a chat and learn a bit of history about the original workshop as well as our belt and pulley driven machinery. The coke fired forge will be alight, the metal hot and the anvil ringing. Private tours can be arranged with one of our volunteers at any time by calling 0427 215 293... Visit our website at www.excellmuseum.org.au

21.01.2022 Open Sunday the 23rd of April at the special time of 11am - 4pm. Come in and have a look around, see the machinery in action and our helpful volenteers will explain not only the function but the history of each peice as well as the shop its self. The forge will be alight and worked adding to the old world charm.

21.01.2022 Museum closed until further notice. Regrettably, due to the escalating risks associated with the covid-19 pandemic, the Excell Museum will remain closed until further notice.

20.01.2022 This Friday the 5th of January we are open from 6:30pm to 9pm as part of our annual twilight night. On the night there will be: Free trolly rides from the caravan park to the museum and back.... Our volunteers will be doing guided tours of the museum along with Blacksmithing demonstrations. Free soft drinks and horse shoe tossing for the kids.

15.01.2022 Last month we had the pleasure of meeting a young bloke with a real passion for blacksmithing. Locky built his own home made forge and he keeps himself busy learning as he goes. Great to see knowledge being passed on by Don our resident blacksmith.

13.01.2022 The quiet Eyre Peninsula town of Tumby Bay was literally humming on the Friday night of January 8 as the Excell Blacksmith and Engineering Museum was open for our recent annual Twilight Tour. The Twilight Tour is a special opening to suit our many visitors to Tumby Bay during the busy January holiday period. On a balmy summers evening after various holiday activities such as fishing amongst the beautiful St Joseph Banks Group of islands or the Scripture Union Family Missi...on and then VacSwim lessons for the kids, many families found their way to this well-kept, working museum of blacksmithing and historic engineering technologies. Some were lucky enough to have a free return trip on Ross Storys horse and cart from the caravan park, while others enjoyed a pleasant walk, enjoying the beautiful summer evening weather in the delightful township of Tumby Bay. read the full story..on http://www.excellmuseum.org.au/twilight-tour/

12.01.2022 The annual Twilight Tour is on again. We hope to see you on the evening of Friday 10th Jan. See the flier for more details.

12.01.2022 EBEM would like to thank everyone that came to the museum on the 6th of January for our 14th annual twilight tour. It was by far our best attendance with close to 200 people through the door over three hours. Our vice chairman Ian Carlton started off the night with a speech and a history of the museum since the opening of the shop in 1905 to the present day. We were honoured to host Tumby Bay Mayor Sam Telfer, who cut the ribbon and officially opened our new machinery shed.... Which is filled with an array of working historic engines. A massive thankyou to Fred Schmal, our visiting blacksmith from Adelaide, for making the trip and supporting us every year and exhibiting his skills on the forge. He is always happy to pass on his knowledge and passion for a rapidly disappearing art. Last but not least, a special thankyou to all our volunteers and committee members for the hard work in keeping the tradition and the museum alive.

10.01.2022 Open every second sunday of the month 2pm - 4pm Come in today and have a look around at a piece of history

09.01.2022 For kids going to a museum usually means boredom. Staring at old things theyre not aloud to touch and being quiet. A working museum is a great way to prove them wrong. Especially if they have an opportunity to swing a hammer and be loud without getting in trouble! Open this sunday the 26th of feb from 2pm to 4pm

08.01.2022 Come in and visit us this sunday the 12th of February from 2pm to 4pm! Gold coin donation on entry* *unless the "apprentice" sets him self on fire (again) then an additional entertainment fee maybe requested ... Open every 2nd and 4th sunday of the month from September to April and every 4th sunday from May to August Visit our website www.excellmuseum.org.au for more infomation #blacksmith #tumbybay

08.01.2022 A busy day at the blacksmith shop

07.01.2022 Shaping red hot metal is one thing. Figuring out technology is another. After seeing this, I think we have it sussed!

04.01.2022 A short video of our main man Don doing what he does best