A Museum Of Difference!

Acknowledged as one of the top community museums in Australia, the Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum is a 'must see' during your time on the Fraser Coast. It has a uniqueness, in that it strives to reflect our past, from pioneering to contemporary, gleaned from a local perspective.

Located in the Wharf Street Precinct, as part of Portside, and opposite the Bond Store, this museum provides a testament to not only those heroes who fought in distant lands to ensure our way of life and prosperity, but also those courageous and determined people who pioneered and progressed the Maryborough area for nearly two centuries.

Display items are rotated regularly. They range through the full spectrum of our military and colonial roots providing a vibrant and nostalgia laced insight into the joys, tribulations and sadness that confronted our pioneering, patriotic and hard-working forebears.

Every aspect of the lives of our predecessors, and indeed some citizens who are still very much alive and well, tastefully adorn the display areas within the two-storey building, itself boasting its own proud colonial origins.

Exhibits come from private collections, donors and those who loan their cherished keepsakes so that others may taste the spirit of our past and in so doing, be confident that the same spirit dwells in those of us forging the furure.

The Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 9am until 3pm. Please visit us .... we will make you most welcome. And on Tuesday (all day), Friday (afternoons) and the second and fourth Saturday of the month, you can enjoy piano music by May Clarke.

On the third Saturday of each month, we are a participant in the very popular Ship To Shore Tour run by the Maryborough Portside Group. E-mail us for more information.

Larger view May plays 'old favourites' while you wander around the museum.

The tour begins at The Port Residence at 4pm. More information!