Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections/Collections

Collections

Explore our inspiring collection online (phone, tablet, PC) with advanced search by color, location, etc. Live updates bring new highlights, stories, and interpretations. Digitization connects past and future!

Public tours offer a closer look at hidden treasures (limited spots, book ahead). Curriculum-aligned school programs use physical objects to bridge the past and present.

Search our collection online

Be inspired, be curious and be surprised. Start your search today and explore the objects online.

Researchers or curators inspecting a curated selection of historical documents, textiles, or decorative objects from Sovereign Hill's material archive.

Back of house collection tours

Come behind the scenes and get up close with hidden treasures on our special back-of-house tours. From Loong, Australia’s oldest processional dragon, to artwork by celebrated Wadawurrung artist Aunty Marlene Gilson, our expert guides will share with you the stories and objects hidden within the museum.

An educational tour for young boys, led by a female guide, at a historical exhibition featuring numerous antique portraits on display racks at Sovereign Hill

School Programs

Our curriculum aligned object-based learning programs bring students behind the scenes into our collections spaces and allows learners to observe, question, research and interpret from our collection of over 150,000 objects. Our programs integrate authentic or replica objects creating connections between the past, present, shining a light on how we lived, how we have changed and how we think about the future.

Search our collection online

Back of house collection tours

School Programs

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