Best places: Museums in Ararat, Australia

👍👍 What an INCREDIBLE place! Photos can’t portray how massive this shed is. For comparison for any English cathedral buffs - the Stick Shed is 100m longer than St Albans cathedral in England, one of the longest cathedrals in the UK. Inside it’s an awe-inspiring sight, and imagining the construction of...

Replica of a gold mining town with costumed actors, a mine tour, coach rides & other attractions.

Quaint museum with a fleet of historic trams & an operational solar-powered tramway.

Guided tours of cells, wards & treatment areas in an old hospital & jail for the criminally insane.

👍 What a special place, excellent for young and old. Plenty of parking and massive numbers of actively working steam engines of all kinds.

History museum exploring Australia's democracy through art installations & digital technology.

👍👍 Lovely volunteer greeted us she was very informative so much information. A worth while place to visit if you want to find out about how Ansett started. Thank you to the lovely volunteer she made our day 💕

Interactive displays over 2 floors telling the story of the Chinese miners who came to the area.

👍👍 This is the WOW she'd go and see what one man's family and friends collection bits for everyone to see from tractors to wedding dress collection with some history in between run by volunteers (good ones at that )

👍👍 Open by appointment and either Campe or Leo will come and greet you! They are very lovely gentlemen and they have a piece of fun history for every car in the museum for you. This privately owned museum is extremely well maintained and contains no two similar vehicles from the same decade. All cars a...

👍👍 Tour was fantastic, informative and interesting, well done to the volunteers. Such a shame that this site is being let go by the owners, could do with some maintenance to keep it a place to visit!

👍👍 The Ballarat gardens are beautiful. We only went to see the Prime Ministers walk - so were delighted to see the display of dahlias & begonias and the amazing statues. The hothouse display was amazing. Loved our visit here.

👍👍 Really nice art gallery in beautiful Hamilton. The permanent exhibition includes great Australian artists such as Howard Arkley, Sidney Nolan, Margaret Ollley, John Brack, Norman Lindsay, Rick Amor, Brian Dunlop and many more. There is also an interesting exhibition upstairs showcasing local artists...

👍👍 What can I say about the fabulous Clunes bottle museum that hasn't already been said? Just, wow. From start to finish this museum boasts a massive, precisely curated bottle collection from decades, and even centuries, past, with concise and witty didactics to guide you along the way. At $3/per perso...

Guided tours of an airport hangar housing aircraft, engines, radios, cameras & aviation memorabilia.

Guided tours of the Aradale Mental Hospital ward that housed the criminally insane for 140+ years.