Ballarat Gold Museum

Ballarat Gold Museum is a museum in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Ballarat Gold Museum is situated nearby to the peak Post Office Hill, as well as near Mullock heap.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Sovereign Hill

Museum

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Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. Sovereign Hill is situated 610 metres south of Ballarat Gold Museum.

Art Gallery of Ballarat

Museum

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The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie. Art Gallery of Ballarat is situated 1½ km northwest of Ballarat Gold Museum.

Ballarat East Fire Station

Fire station

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The Ballarat East Fire Station, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer. Ballarat East Fire Station is situated 1 km north of Ballarat Gold Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.

Ballarat

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Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.

Warrenheip

Suburb

Warrenheip is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby Mount Warrenheip. At the 2021 census, Warrenheip had a population of 721. Warrenheip is situated 5 km east of Ballarat Gold Museum.

Buninyong

Town

Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. Buninyong is situated 9 km south of Ballarat Gold Museum.

Ballarat Gold Museum

Opening hours: 9:30 AM—5:20 PM
Type: Museum
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.57367° or 37° 34′ 25″ south

Longitude

143.86701° or 143° 52′ 1″ east

Operator

Sovereign Hill Museums Association

Open location code

4RJ5CVG8+GR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 127975057

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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