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

Tweed Heads and District Historical Society
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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  Name Locality Telephone
nautical model on display in the Ballina navel and Maritime Museum

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

Ballina (02) 6681 1002
Tweed River Historical Society

Tweed River Regional Museum - Murwillumbah

The Tweed River Regional Museum - Murwillumbah (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

Murwillumbah (02) 6672 1865
Minjungbal Aboriginal Centre

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.

Tweed Heads South (07) 5524 2109
Name
Locality
Telephone
Collections Australia Network National (02) 9217 0347
Museums and Galleries NSW NSW -
Alstonville Plateau Historical Society Inc Alstonville (02) 6681 1596
Ballina Naval & Maritime Museum Ballina (02) 6681 1002
Ballina Opal and Gem Museum Ballina (02) 6686 2559
Bangalow Historical Society & Museum  Bangalow (02) 6687 1317
Beaudesert Art, Craft & Information Centre Beaudesert (07) 5541 4495
Beaudesert Historical Society & Museum  Beaudesert (07) 5541 3740
Cape Byron Headland Reserve Trust Byron Bay (02) 6685 5955
Casino Folk Museum Casino (02) 6662 2893
Casino Mini Railway Casino (02) 6662 1924
Point Danger Memorial Coolangatta/Tweed Heads
Tamborine Mountain Historical Society Eagle Heights (07) 5545 1485
Evans Head Living Museum Evans Head (02) 6682 6410
Kyogle and District Historical Soceiety Museum Kyogle (02) 6632 1672
Richmond River Historical Society Lismore (02) 6621 9993
Gold Coast Hinterland Heritage Museum new listing Mudgeeraba (07) 5530 5703
Brunswick Valley Historical Society Museum Mullumbimby (02) 6684 1844
Lisnagar Heritage Homestead Murwillumbah (02) 6672 5062
Tweed River Regional Museum - Murwillumbah Murwillumbah (02) 6672 1865
Tumbulgum Cemetry 1887 - 1947 Tumbulgum -
Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre Tweed Heads South (07) 5524 2109
Tweed River Regional Museum - Tweed Heads (Tweed Maritime Museum) Tweed Heads West (07) 5536 8625
Tweed River Regional Museum - Uki and South Arm Uki (02) 6679 5890