Local museums:
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Talbot Communications Museum features historic radio, telephone and TV equipment
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Museums
within 30 minutes drive:
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Clunes museum has exhibits on agriculture, mining and domestic life during the gold rush (Clunes)Lalors Prescription depot has a display of old pharmacy items in Australia's oldest chemist (Avoca) Lee Medlyn Home of Bottles features the largest bottle collection in the Southern Hemisphere (Clunes)
Worsely Cottage Museum illustrates what life was like during the early days of settlement (Maryborough)
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Museums
within 60 minutes drive:
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Cricket willow gallery and museums (Shepherds Flat)Daylesford museumGoldfields historical museum (Dunnolly)
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Railway
Station nursery, Railway Ave
A
treasure trove of railway memorabilia, a nursery of drought and frost
hardy plants, a produce and hardware store, and art gallery with custom
framing services. Open Wednesday to Sunday 10.00 am to 5.00
pm
03 5463 2136
Talbot
Arts & Historical Museum, Camp Street
Opened in 1984 in the former Primitive Methodist Church
and later clothing factory, Talbot Museum houses the Edwards Collection
of photographs, documents and letters, plus trade and lifestyle
material from an early settler, watchmaker and jeweller, JB Edwards,
and his descendants.
Trace your family roots. Link with other gold era museums, particularly
those in the Villages of the Old Goldfields. Trace Victoria's first
gold discoveries. Be amazed at mining relics and reminded of the way
Talbot was.
Open every Sunday from 1.00 to 4.00 pm or by appointment
03 5463 2578 or 0428 518 629
This page was last updated on 30 December 2009
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