Manning Valley Historical Society

The Museum

The Manning Valley Historical Society Museum and Archives is located in an historic building once used as a grocery and produce store, circa 1880, and overlooks the imposing town square park of Wingham. 

This park is the result of far thinking pioneers and sets Wingham apart from other town of the era.  It is surrounded on four sides by historic buildings and has a magnificent view of the Comboyne Plateau.

Open

10 am  -  4 pm  Daily

Wander across the solid timber floorboards of a building classified by the National Trust where such diverse items of clothing, fabrics, hats, boots, ironmongery, crockery, glassware, patent medicines, wire netting, rope and saddlery were once sold to weary travellers.  The whole museum exudes the spell of yesteryear, with treasures around every corner, each one lovingly cared for by volunteer staff.

Four room settings have been displayed in period  -  each incorporating unique
 features of the past to help visitors imagine how life used to be.

The museum house a collection of photographs, furniture, fashions, phonographs
 and folk craft from the past

See the utensils that made Grandma question the claim that she lived in 'the 
good old days'

Try and understand how our forefathers used the tools of trade in an era 
before electricity.

Be enchanted by the glass, ceramic and silverware that gave gracious living 
a meaning difficult to imagine in today's plastic throwaway society.

See Wingham's 19th Century police cell which housed Jimmy Governor 
(Blacksmith) following his capture and prior to his transportation to 
Sydney for trial and execution.

One of the many displays at the Museum is.
bedroom furniture from a pioneer homestead.  
It was made from local cedar in the later 1800's

 

Coach tours and school groups welcome by appointment

 

 

The Museum has a range of books and souvenirs for sale to help keep alive the memories of your visit

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