Previous Standards Participants

Grassland Art Gallery. Photo: Richard Birchley, courtesy of Grassland Art Gallery.

Learn more about the previous public museums and galleries across Queensland that participated in M&G QLD’s Standards Review Program.

2019 Standards Participants
Mount Isa & Cloncurry regions

Cloncurry Unearthed Visitor Information Centre and Museum

Discover stories of Cloncurry and the surrounding district through objects in the museum.

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John Flynn Place Museum and Art Gallery

John Flynn Place Museum and Art Gallery tells the founding story of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) and Reverend John Flynn’s commitment to better living conditions, particularly medical care, for remote Australia.

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Outback at Isa

The centre incorporates the Mount Isa Regional Art Gallery, Isa Experience Heritage Display, Riversleigh Fossil Centre, Rodeo Hall of Fame, Hard Times Mine Tour, Outback at Isa Café, Outback Park and Visitor Information Centre.

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Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Museum

Step back in time at the Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Museum to visit two heritage-listed Queensland icons!

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2018 Standards Participants
Ipswich & Lockyer Valley regions

M&G QLD acknowledges the support of Ipswich City Council’s and Lockyer Valley Regional Council’s Regional Arts Development Fund, which allowed M&G QLD to deliver this program to these regions.

Cooneana Heritage Centre

Cooneana Heritage Centre, managed by Ipswich Historical Society, is a historically significant site in Ipswich.

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Ipswich Hospital Museum

Ipswich Hospital Museum offers a display of Ipswich Hospital artifacts concerning the history of the Ipswich Hospital its people and their stories.

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Ipswich Soldiers’ Memorial Hall Museum

The museum has an extensive collection of handmade postcards from World War I and several dairies from soldiers who served during WW1.

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Jessie’s Cottage Local History Museum

The aim and purpose of the Jessie’s Cottage Local History Museum is to educate, entertain and inform visitors to the area.

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Lockyer Valley Art Gallery

The gallery supports the valley’s local artists as well as visiting artists from further afield, including travelling exhibitions.

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RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre

The RAAF Base Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre displays a range of aircraft that have operated from Amberley.

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2017 Standards Participants
Sunshine Coast and Noosa regions

M&G QLD acknowledges the support of Sunshine Coast Council through the Cultural Heritage Levy, which allowed M&G QLD to deliver this program to the region.

Bankfoot House Heritage Precinct

Explore heritage listed Bankfoot House, where three generations made their home. Walk through the front door and experience the house as the family left it.

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Bli Bli on Maroochy Historical Society

The Bli Bli On Maroochy Historical Society collects, preserves and promotes local history in the Maroochy and Mooloolah River areas.

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Discover Eumundi Heritage & Visitor Centre

Visit Discover Eumundi Heritage and Visitor Centre to learn about the history of the town, find out what’s around the area and see the latest exhibition in the arts space.

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Noosa Library Service Heritage Library

The Noosa Library Service Heritage Library collects, promotes, preserves and interprets history and heritage of the Noosa region.

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Noosa Shire Museum

At Noosa Shire Museum you can see shared cultures of the local Aboriginal people, the Gubbi Gubbi, and European settlers.

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Pioneer Cottage Buderim

Go back in time to understand how the Burnett Family of 11 lived in the late 19th Century. From attic to bathroom, elegant parlour to outdoor slab hut, rich layers of family life and Buderim history will be revealed.

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Sunshine Coast Art Collection

The Sunshine Coast Art Collection numbers more than 300 artworks, acquired since the late 1960s. See the Art Collection at the Caloundra Regional Gallery when on display.

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Yandina & District Historical Society

The Yandina Historic House precinct includes a local artists gallery, visitor information centre, gift and craft shop, heritage discovery room as well as historical collections in the Museum Shed.

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2016 Standards Participants
Maranoa & Western Downs regions

M&G QLD acknowledges the support of Western Downs Regional Council, Maranoa Regional Council and the Regional Arts Development Fund, which allowed M&G QLD to deliver this program to the region.

Chinchilla Historical Museum

Stand in the place where the fight against the scourge of prickly pear was instigated, read about the development of the experimental station and the first plant killed by the larvae of the cactoblastis moth.

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Gallery 107 @ Dalby

Gallery 107 @ Dalby is a contemporary art space in rural Queensland showcasing emerging and established artists.

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Lapunyah Art Gallery

Recognised as a warm and welcoming space for exhibiting artists and visitors, Lapunyah has a changing program of local and touring exhibitions across two gallery spaces.

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Miles Historical Village Museum

There are over 35 buildings in a streetscape with amazing collections and links to a bygone era…if you remember it, we have it!

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Roma on Bungil Gallery

Roma on Bungil Gallery is a vibrant, accessible space that presents quality exhibitions to reflect and celebrate the local community.

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Taroom & District Historical Museum

Follow explorer Ludwig Leichhardt’s 1844 footsteps into the rich farming country around the Dawson River and visit the Taroom Museum.

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2015 Standards Participants
Mackay region

M&G QLD acknowledges the support of Mackay Regional Council and the Regional Arts Development Fund, which allowed M&G QLD to deliver this program to the region.

Artspace Mackay

Artspace Mackay is a regional art gallery, owned and operated by Mackay Regional Council. It is a purpose-built and award-winning architecturally designed building, and was opened in 2003.

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Greenmount Homestead

Greenmount Homestead is perhaps Mackay’s most historically significant site with over 20,000 pieces of history on display.

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Mackay Regional Council Library Service – Heritage Collection

The library’s Heritage Collection, located in the Carmel Daveson Research Room at Mackay City Library, houses an extensive range of historical and current resources relating to the development of the Mackay Region.

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Noosa Regional Gallery

The gallery presents an ever-changing annual exhibition program, featuring leading local, national and international artists, curators and collections, accompanied by a suite of public programs developed and delivered by a small team of dedicated staff and volunteers.

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Pioneer Valley Museum at Mirani

The sugar industry, dairying, timber, gold mining and other former industries of the Valley are represented at the Museum.

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2014 Standards Participants
North Queensland region

Kronosaurus Korner

Kronosaurus Korner is Australia’s premier marine fossil museum, featuring over 600 registered fossils from Richmond, Outback Queensland.

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Maritime Museum of Townsville

The Maritime Museum of Townsville holds many interesting treasures and tells the story of the maritime history of Townsville and surrounds.

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Queensland Maritime Museum

Queensland Maritime Museum houses a fascinating collection of maritime artefacts that represent many aspects of Queensland’s rich maritime heritage.

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Townsville Heritage Centre

Located near Townsville’s impressive Castle Hill, visitors experience the rich heritage of the city during their tour of the historic home ‘Currajong’ and the ‘Worker’s Cottage’.

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Zara Clark Museum

A large collection of everyday objects, historical machinery and photographs, tells the story of life in the area over time and illustrates the excitement of Charters Towers’ development since the discovery of gold in 1871.

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2013 Standards Participants
Central Western Queensland region

Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre

Welcomed by the impressive bronze statue of the ringer, symbolic of rural heritage, the visitor is taken on a journey into the heart of Australia.

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Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery

The gallery provides an attractive and well-designed venue for local and touring exhibitions.

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Emerald Art Gallery

Emerald Art Gallery provides the local community with a high profile exhibition space, located in the Central Highlands Regional Council offices in Emerald.

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Grassland Art Gallery

Grassland Art Gallery has a rotating exhibition program of locally produced and curated displays, regional artists and touring exhibitions.

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Longreach Powerhouse Museum

A hidden gem, the Longreach Powerhouse Museum boasts a state-registered heritage complex that showcases the rare technology of gas-fired electrical generation.

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Qantas Founders Museum

The museum has a variety of exhibits, interactive displays, artefacts and aircraft including a Boeing 747, Boeing 707 and DC3.

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Qantilda Museum, Waltzing Matilda Centre

Operating since 1972, Qantilda is now part of the Waltzing Matilda Centre complex, showcasing an extensive and diverse collection drawn almost exclusively from the Winton region.

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Ram Park

Ram Park is an historical complex located in the main street of Blackall which hosts a number of relocated buildings, important to the region.

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2012 Standards Participants
Wide Bay Burnett region

Australian Sugar Cane Railway

Skilled members of the Bundaberg Steam Tramway Preservation Society Inc carry out maintenance and restoration of the locomotives largely on site.

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Bundaberg & District Historical & Museum Society Inc.

The Bundaberg and District Historical and Museum Society Inc. collects and preserves the heritage of the Bundaberg region.

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Eidsvold and District Historical Complex

Eidsvold Historical Complex is located in country redolent with memories of sheep, cattle and gold mining days from families whose descendants still live in the district.

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Hervey Bay Regional Gallery

Exhibitions include touring shows from major galleries and museums throughout Australia, and unique state and regional exhibits.

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Hinkler Hall of Aviation

Set in the lush Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, the Hinkler Hall of Aviation brings to life the adventures and achievements of Australia’s famous pioneer solo aviator Bert Hinkler.

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Monto Historical and Cultural Complex

The Monto Historical and Cultural Complex is a well presented facility, with a pleasant garden frontage located on one of the main thoroughfares into Monto.

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Mount Perry Centennial Museum

Situated in the original 1880s Mt Perry Shire Council Chambers, the Mt Perry Museum houses a collection of heritage objects specific to Mt Perry and the surrounding districts.

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Old Pharmacy

The bustling town of Childers in the North Burnett was first opened up to timber-getting during the 1850s and 1860s. As the township developed, it drew Thomas Gaydon, who opened the chemist shop in the town in 1894.

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Portside Centre

The Portside Centre reveals the history of the Port of Maryborough and how the City developed around the Port.

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2011 Standards Participants
Cooktown and Tablelands regions

M&G QLD acknowledges the support of Cooktown & District Historical Society Inc, Mareeba Historic Society Inc and the Regional Arts Development Fund, which made it possible to bring this program to these regions.

Atherton Chinatown

The National Trust property, Atherton Chinatown, incorporates an interpretive centre and the Hou Wang Temple.

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Cooktown History Centre

Built in 1876 as the first Post and Telegraph Office in Cooktown, it is the oldest surviving building in Charlotte Street.

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Herberton Mining Museum

The site is recognised for the rarity and intactness of the surviving steam haulage machinery, which surpasses any other mining place in Queensland.

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James Cook Museum

Housed in a stunning 19th Century convent building, the James Cook Museum in Cooktown showcases the fascinating history of this remarkable town.

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Mareeba Heritage Centre

Mareeba Heritage Centre is a vibrant museum and tourist information centre established in 1995 and well supported by its diverse multicultural community.

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Mareeba Historic Society

The Mareeba Historic Society was formed in 1993 to seek out, preserve and conserve the history of all areas encompassed by the original Mareeba Shire as well as neighbouring towns and shires.

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Nature’s Powerhouse

Nature’s Powerhouse is a large interpretive centre, stunningly located in the beautiful, heritage listed Cooktown Botanic Gardens.

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Tableland Regional Gallery

The Tableland Regional Gallery was established in March 2008 to promote regional art and to encourage both emerging and professional artists.

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2010 Standards Participants
South East Queensland region

Brisbane Tramway Museum

The unique feature of the Brisbane Tramway Museum is the collection of Brisbane tramcars and trolley buses.

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Commissariat Store Museum

The Commissariat Store Museum is housed in the only occupied convict-built structure in Brisbane and holds a significant collection spanning Moreton Bay’s penal colony, early free settlement in Queensland and social history in Brisbane and Queensland up to the 20th century.

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Diamantina Health Care Museum

In 1883 the Diamantina Orphanage was the first building on the land, then from 1893-97 it became a residence for the quieter patients from the Goodna Asylum, and in 1898 a Reformatory for boys.

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Gympie Regional Gallery

The Gallery showcases a changing display of exhibitions in three exhibition spaces – touring, local and regional.

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Adderton: house & heart of mercy

Adderton: house & heart of mercy is a social history museum exploring the lives and work of the Sisters of Mercy Brisbane Congregation within a significant building.

Miegunyah – Pioneer Women’s Folk Museum

Miegunyah houses the stories and objects of a late 19th century family life.

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Museum of Nursing History, RBWH

When the Museum of Nursing History began in 1992 one of its aims was to establish a museum of the history of nursing.

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Queensland Police Museum

The Queensland Police Museum includes 25 displays describing police heritage, Queensland crimes, police investigative techniques, medals, the history of police women, operational equipment and transport, amongst others.

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Wondai Regional Art Gallery

The Gallery provides emerging and established artists the opportunity to exhibit within the three gallery spaces.

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2009 Standards Participants
Southern Inland Queensland region

Chinchilla Historical Museum

Chinchilla Historical Museum is dedicated to the natural resources of the Chinchilla area and the history of their use.

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Discover Eumundi Heritage & Visitor Centre

Discover Eumundi Heritage and Visitor Centre is housed in the old Methodist Church and is one of the most visited museums on the Sunshine Coast with an estimated 10,000 visitors per year.

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Dogwood Crossing @ Miles

Dogwood Crossing, Miles is a centre for community, creativity and inspiration. The centre and its staff play a key leadership, advocacy and advisory role in the region’s arts and cultural development.

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Transport and Main Roads Heritage Centre

The only road building museum in Australia, the Transport and Main Roads Heritage Centre offers an exclusive perspective of the history of road building in Queensland.

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Miles Historical Village

The Miles Historical Village was officially opened in 1971, and over the years has developed into one of the premier tourist attractions within the region.

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Milne Bay Military Museum

Milne Bay Military Museum, the official 25/49 Battalion History Room as recognised by the Army History Unit, began as a collection of artefacts belonging to 25th Battalion veterans who had served during World War I and II and in the Battle of Milne Bay in 1942.

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Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery

Opened in November 1987, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery came into being from the hard work and dedication of the Stanthorpe Art Gallery Society, created in 1972.

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Warwick Art Gallery

Committed to community activities, the Gallery aims to identify, promote and celebrate the community’s artistic and cultural identity and support community based festivals, exchanges and events.

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2008 Standards Participants
Gold Coast and Scenic Rim regions

Beaudesert Historical Museum

Beaudesert Historical Society, a volunteer organisation, was founded in 1961 to collect and record the history of the shire.

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Beenleigh & District Historical Society

Beenleigh Historical Village and Museum has over 20 buildings on site with historical significance to the local area.

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Gold Coast & Hinterland Historical Museum

The grounds were the site of an Aboriginal gathering place and are positioned on a remaining section of an extensive section of a sand dune that was formed 120,000 years ago.

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Garden Hill at Lost World

The Museum buildings are mainly split slab and galvanised iron and have been re-erected. These have been adapted for use as exhibition spaces for historical displays and art.

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Rathdowney Historical Museum (RADHA Inc)

The collection relates to local history including pioneering families, pioneering women, timber & dairying industries, and artifacts from the local region since settlement from the 1860s onwards.

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Tamborine Mountain Heritage Centre

The Tamborine Mountain Heritage Centre is dedicated specifically to the history of Tamborine Mountain.

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Upper Clarence Historical Society Pioneer Cottage & Bicentennial Museum

The Upper Clarence Historical Society was established to collect and record the history of the region and to provide a resource of knowledge, ideas, stories and memories of its early settlers.

Yugambeh Museum, Language & Heritage Research Centre

The Yugambeh Museum is committed to the conservation and promotion of the cultural heritage of the traditional Aboriginal people of the Yugambeh Language Region.

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2007 Standards Participants
Far North Queensland region

Cairns Historical Society Museum

The Cairns Museum, part of Cairns Historical Society, is housed in the School of Arts building, one of the oldest heritage listed buildings in Cairns.

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Cairns and District Chinese Association Inc. (CADCAI)

The Cairns and District Chinese Association is the custodian of the Lit Sung Goong Temple Collection, a significant collection of over 240 items from the temple which operated in Cairns between 1886 and 1964.

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Croydon Heritage Centre

Croydon True Blue Heritage Centre has a Croydon family genealogy database dating from 1886, a movie shown in the theatrette and more museum information and archives. It has sculptures, machinery, antique cars and mining architecture in its botanical gardens.

Innisfail Friends of the Temple

The Lit Sing Gung Temple is an original art deco building constructed in 1940 by the renowned construction firm the Romano Bros. after the original Temple was badly damaged in several cyclones, flood and fire.

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Innisfail Library

The Cassowary Coast Library houses the Innisfail Heritage Collection which consists of photographs and printed works related to the history of the Johnstone Shire area or created by residents of the shire.

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