DISCOVER HISTORY

  • Portside Centre - For your complete guide to Maryborough visit the Portside Centre  in Wharf Street.   Part of the Queensland Heritage Trails Network, it provides a professional, colourful and entertaining representation of Maryborough's history as major port and one of Queensland’s oldest cities.  Interactive displays include listening posts with first settler stories, time capsules and a multimedia Pepper's ghost display revisiting the time when sly grog running was rife and opium was a legal import. Experienced guides and scores of publications help give people insight into the  city and its colourful origins.
  • Bond Store Museum - Just a few doors away is one of the largest museum collections celebrating this early history and one of the city’s oldest buildings: the Bond Store Museum. The earthen floor and ancient handmade bricks in the original 1864 building downstairs still exist, as do many of the liquor barrels left over from that time.
  • Visit one of only three preserved retail stores in the world and discover what shopping was like over 130 years ago at Brennan and Geraghty’s Store Museum in Lennox Street.
  • Tour the Original Maryborough Site. It is one of the few original township sites in Australia left intact, where pioneer graves help create a lingering sense of history.
  • Take an informative guided tour of a historic home. Mavis Bank, built in 1874, has extraordinary antiques and furniture.
  •  Find out more about Australia’s military history at the Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum at Portside.
  • Trace your family history at the Heritage Centre in Richmond Street.
  • Uncover Maryborough’s impressive rail heritage at the Whistle Stop Museum, located on the site of the heritage-listed railway station in Lennox Street (c. 1882).
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