Museums and Heritage Attractions of the Ballina, Byron Bay, Tweed Valley, Gold Coast region of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia

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Museums, Historic Places and Heritage Buildings

Photo © Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre.

Museums, heritage sites and historical places include Aboriginal and European sites through-out the Byron Bay, Tweed Valley, Gold Coast Region of New South Wales, Australia.

These can include landforms and places of significance, as well as buildings and built structures.  Historical Societies, often housed in the same building as the local historical museum, can usually provide research services at a nominal or reasonable cost.

Museums and historic buildings are often open on set days or by arrangement for groups and schools, while historic places may have interpretive signage of their significance.

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Ballina Naval & Maritime Museum

The museum is open daily from 9am to 4pm, EAST, except Xmas Day, Boxing Day, Anzac Day and Good Friday, with a large collection of naval and maritime memorabilia: a full size La Balsas raft which succesfully completed a trans Pacific voyage from South America, and many other interesting displays.  Admission by donation

Tweed River Historical Society

The Tweed River Historical Society Museum is located in the original Tweed Shire City Hall, and has many interesting displays of local history and development of the valley.  It opens Wednesday and Friday each week from 11 am to 3 pm, or by arrangement. Clubs, special interest and school groups are welcome.  Nominal admission

Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre

A NSW NPWS Historic Site, the Centre has a fine museum, and a shop offering aboriginal art, crafts and souvenirs. A mangrove boardwalk and walking track winds through the site, to an amphi-theatre.  Free use of picnic facilities with electric barbecues and free admission to the shop.   Indigenous officers offer guided interpretive tours to visitors through the museum and site, its relics, flora and fauna, making it an ideal school outing or special interest group visit.  $15 per adult, $7.50 concession includes tour guide for museum and site.

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