West Coast Heritage Centre
West Coast Heritage Centre (formerly known as the West Coast Pioneers Museum) is a complex of buildings and collections in Main Street of Zeehan, Tasmania in West Coast Tasmania in Australia.
The centre was managed by the company West Coast Heritage Limited in 2016.[1]
History
[edit]The closure of the Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy in the 1960s saw the founding of the Pioneers Museum in 1964.[2]
The centre included seven hectares and housing over 30 themed displays and exhibit.
The components of the centre include:
- Collections of the West Coast Pioneers' Museum[3][4]
- The buildings of the former Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy[5]
- Zeehan Post Office[6]
- Zeehan Courthouse[7]
- Gaiety Theatre[8]
- Grand Hotel[9]
- Covered area of preserved railway locomotives, rolling stock and machinery[10]
- Mining explosive display
- Art exhibitions and exhibits[11]
Notes
[edit]- ^ West Coast Heritage Ltd. (Tas.) (2013), West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan, West Coast Heritage Ltd, retrieved 12 May 2016
- ^ page 185 of Atkinson, Sue, (Museum consultant), (compiler.) (2012), Tasmania : island of treasures, 40 Degrees South, ISBN 978-0-9874468-1-7
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ West Coast Pioneers' Memorial Museum (Zeehan, Tas.) (2010), Welcome to West Coast Pioneers' Museum, Zeehan, Tasmania : visitor information, [Zeehan, Tasmania] [West Coast Pioneers' Museum], retrieved 12 May 2016
- ^ West Coast Heritage Ltd. (Tas.) (2013), West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan, West Coast Heritage Ltd, retrieved 6 February 2022
- ^ Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy (1890), Prospectus for ... : including reports, balance sheets, syllabus of instruction, results of the annual examinations, etc., etc, Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy, retrieved 12 May 2016
- ^ "ZEEHAN POST OFFICE". The Advocate. Tasmania. 2 October 1926. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "ZEEHAN COURT HOUSE". The Examiner. Vol. XIII, no. 9. Tasmania. 10 January 1903. p. 5 (DAILY.). Retrieved 12 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "GAIETY THEATRE". Launceston Examiner. Vol. LVIII, no. 250. Tasmania. 20 October 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "SALE OF GRAND HOTEL AT ZEEHAN". The Mercury. Vol. CXVIII, no. 17, 320. Tasmania. 11 April 1923. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Sandbunny2010 (1984), TGR Locomotive C1 - West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan (November 1984), retrieved 6 February 2022
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Taylor, Sue Jane; West Coast Pioneers' Memorial Museum (Zeehan, Tas.) (2009), Mineworks, West Coast Pioneer Museum, retrieved 12 May 2016