Ballarat Tramway Museum
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The museum is run by volunteers and has a fleet of trams which operate on part of the original horse tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens.Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays 11:30 AM—4:00 PM
- Email: info@btm.org.au
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum operating old trams in Ballarat, Victoria
- Address: 401A Wendouree Parade
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ballarat Botanical Gardens and Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Garden
Photo: Biatch, Public domain.
The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones. Ballarat Botanical Gardens is situated 390 metres north of Ballarat Tramway Museum.
Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Tortoise42, Public domain.
The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated on Friday, 6 February 2004. It is located on the southern approaches to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, on Wendouree Parade and adjacent to Lake Wendouree. Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial is situated 220 metres southeast of Ballarat Tramway Museum.
Ballarat High School
School
Ballarat High School is a government secondary school located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Ballarat High School is situated 390 metres southwest of Ballarat Tramway Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Miners Rest.
Ballarat
Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Miners Rest
Suburb
Miners Rest is a suburb north of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the north-western rural-urban fringe of the city, 11 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District. Miners Rest is situated 8 km north of Ballarat Tramway Museum.
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 10 km east of Ballarat Tramway Museum.
Ballarat Tramway Museum
- Categories: heritage railway, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55152° or 37° 33′ 6″ southLongitude
143.82038° or 143° 49′ 13″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CRXC+95OpenStreetMap ID
way 50275702OpenStreetMap feature
building=shedOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q4851483
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In Other Languages
“Ballarat Tramway Museum” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “バララット路面電車博物館”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ballarat Tramway Museum and South Gardens Reserve.
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