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Gayndah Museum

Locality: Gayndah, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4161 2226

Address: 6 Simon St 4625 Gayndah, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.gayndahmuseum.com.au

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22.01.2022 Join us next Saturday afternoon to help celebrate our 50th anniversary! We will be steaming up Sunday as normal along with the markets in the park.

16.01.2022 Today marks 150 years since the Queensland Derby was first held in Gayndah in 1868. The Derby was run on the final day of a 3 day meet, starting on July 7 and finishing on July 9. The event was well advertised, with bookmakers coming from as far as Melbourne and spectators coming from Port Curtis, Drayton, Ipswich and Nanango just to name a few. The race itself was labelled a tame affair, with 5 of the 9 nominations forfeiting prior to the event. Of the remaining 4, Goshawk, ...was injured on the first day of racing and unable to start. Escobedo neither looked or went like a racehorse, and the Hermit won without difficulty from The Rake, who though showed great dash of foot, was distressed nearly half a mile from home. The meet was a very social event, Publicans were able to purchase booths for 10 10s and Confectioners selling tea, cake and the like could purchase a booth for 2 2s. Gate fees were listed as 1s per person, 6d for a horse, 1s 6d for two wheels and 3s for four wheels. The photograph shown is the only one known from the Derby and gives a good insight into the festivities of the event. The Derby was held in Gayndah until 1871 when it then moved to Brisbane. See more

16.01.2022 Join us next Saturday afternoon to help celebrate our 50th anniversary! We will be steaming up Sunday as normal along with the markets in the park.

15.01.2022 Steam up done and dusted for May, our blacksmiths gave the power hammer its first workout in a while and we also got some nice timber out of a Chinchilla White Gum.

14.01.2022 Alan Watt has shared this photo from 1937 taken at the Royal Hotel in Gayndah, hoping someone may be able to identify the couple on the left. This is what he kn...ows: "My great uncle Bob Stewart either owned or co-owned the Royal Hotel in Gayndah. My Grandparents and my Dad, the boy in the picture visited Bob in 1937. They are pictured with Bob who is at the extreme right. The couple on the left, I don't know. My grandmother, Helen was Bob's sister. " See more

14.01.2022 Gayndah Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019 and as usual we will be running displays over the Orange Festival weekend on the 4th and 5th of May. As well as the displays, we will also be serving devonshire tea at Ideraway Homestead - so if you are in town for the festival come down for a wander through the museum and enjoy a scone (or two)

14.01.2022 This weekend the Gayndah Museum hosted guests from the Queensland Steam & Vintage Machinery Society (Petrie) and the Maryborough City Whistle Stop. They, along with two of our volunteers, practiced on and observed our steam engines in action as they prepare to sit for their steam tickets!

10.01.2022 This c1926 PE Renault tractor got its first run this weekend, since going underwater in the 2013 floods!

09.01.2022 This weekend we were lucky enough to have some visitors from the Queensland Steam and Vintage Machinery Society to help us out around the museum. They did a great job cleaning and running our twin cylinder Marshall steam engine - thanks for all your hard work! We also pressure tested and fired the Keystone drilling rig for the first time since around 2008.

09.01.2022 If any one grew up in Gayndah in the late 1950’s 1960’s and 70’s they would remember Barry’s Bakery, this photo would be before Pat Barry bought the business

06.01.2022 Great weekend at the Biloela Old Wheels in Motion rally hosted by the Callide Dawson Machinery Preservation Club Inc.! Several Gayndah Museum members attended showing both stationary engines and the museum’s portable Clayton and Shuttleworth steam engine.

05.01.2022 Last weekend members from the Gayndah Museum attended the Australia Day rally at Bucca, organised by the Rum City Vintage Machinery Club Inc. A great day was had by all!

05.01.2022 Big weekend at the museum replacing the stumps under the walkway around the Walkers engine.

03.01.2022 Thanks to Lianne for sharing these wonderful pictures taken during her visit to our museum.

01.01.2022 Great couple of days at the Museum for the Orange Festival over the weekend - thanks to everyone who came down for a look!