Hesse Street, Queenscliff
Queenscliffe Historical Museum
The Museum is dedicated to conserving and displaying items relating to the local history of the Borough of Queenscliffe since 1838. The diverse collection reflects the many aspects of the development of Queenscliffe; sea pilot station, fishing village, military guardian of Port Phillip Bay and fashionable sea-side resort. The museum building is set in a grassed reserve between the Post Office and the Library in the main street of Queenscliff and houses both temporary and permanent exhibitions.
At the Queenscliffe Historical Museum there is a treasure-store of archival material, including photographs, title documents, municipal records, shipping lists, local history, newspaper cuttings from as early as 1882, diaries, relics from shipwrecks, household and personal items, artefacts, lace, textiles, quilts, garments, old machinery, early furniture, childrens' toys - and a 1863 doctor's medicine box with contents!
Founding families like the Baillieus, Lathams, were instrumental in building railroads, water reticulation, and the property boom. The Museum houses many old papers including early subdivision plans, titles, testamentary documents, early shipping arrivals, records of shipwrecks and rescues, early primary production.
The s.s.Constance was, like the s.s.Hygeia, an integral part of the tourist industry to early Queenscliffe bringing day trippers or holiday makers to this part of the world. The Museum has shipping records and early newspapers which make fascinating reading.
Subject:
- Social History Museum
- Photographs
- Craft
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Painting
- Textiles, Spinning and Weaving
- Archives
- Armed Forces
- Childhood
- Domestic Items
- EducationAndSchools
- Emergency Services
- Genealogy
- Historic People
- Local Government
- Local History
- Maritime and Naval History
- Medals and Badges
- Militaria
- Organisations
- Professionals and Trades
- Social History
- Women
- Clothing, Fashion, Costume
- Hunting, Fishing, Trapping
- Marine Technology
- Photography
- Ships and Shipping
- Ephemera
- Toys and Games
Items
Early typewriter
Early mechanisation
Books
Prescription Books
Writing desk
Writing desk and cupboard
Point Lonsdale, France, Queenscliffe
Textile
Elizabeth Keen Quilt
The quilt has been featured in 'Australia's Quilts - a Directory of Patchwork Treasures' and several other publications and is listed on the Australian Quilt Register, Pioneer Women's Hut, Tumbarumba. Elizabeth Keen was the proprietor of the Junction Hotel at Fyansford near Geelong.
Fyansford, Geelong
Telescope
Captain Preston's Telescope
Point Lonsdale, Queenscliffe