Events 2026
~ Pets in the Park ~ Friday 17th April, 2026
Family fun day for the April school holidays.
Half price entry, online bookings available, see the book now code below.
10am - 2pm
Bring your pets and join in the fun
Crafts, Games, Story Time, Competitions and much more.
Check our Facebook page for updates on attractions
Half price entry, online bookings available, see the book now code below.
10am - 2pm
Bring your pets and join in the fun
Crafts, Games, Story Time, Competitions and much more.
Check our Facebook page for updates on attractions
Heritage Month - April 18 to May 18, 2026 : Join our special guided tours
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Sunday, 19th April : The Changing Face of Main Street
This tour will introduce you to early Gippsland businesses, services and every day life through time. Your tour guide will show you how townspeople accessed services in the late 1800s, houses and farm equipment ordered via catalogues, boots made from scratch to sending a telegram. Follow the shift in communication, health care, law and fashion and find out what stayed the same and what moved on. Our 8 acres of parkland welcomes you to explore the rest of our history after your tour, we have a cafe on-site and the park is open until 4pm. Sunday, 3rd May : Forge by Hand - Trades, Tools & Transformation
This tour will be hosted by our resident blacksmith, tour through our many trade specific buildings and see how skilled trades supported daily life in the 1850s to 1930s. Discussion on what changed for tinsmiths, wheelwrights and blacksmiths as cars, machines in general, mass production and new materials arrived, see original printing presses used in the Gippsland area way before the digital age. What trades survived, adapted or disappeared. When the tour is completed, you are welcome to explore the rest of our buildings at your leisure. The park and cafe close at 4pm. |
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Thursday, 30th April : Hooves to Horsepower - A change in Transport, Defence & Knowledge
Your specialised tour guide will take you through Gippsland's ANZAC exhibition showing the military service and its impact on everyday life, including Australia's first sea battle in WWI that gained us the steam whistle from the famous battle between the German steam ship SMS Emden when it was sunk by the HMAS Sydney. Your curiosity in the evolution of horse-drawn transport will be sated by the tour of our extensive horse drawn vehicle collection held here at Old Gippstown Heritage Park, which is one of the largest in Victoria. Finally, the Narracan Mechanics' Institute Library is a symbol of changing access to education and ideas. This collection is one of the last existing, unadulterated Mechanic's Institute libraries in the country. This part of the tour will provide insight into the type of practical reading our pioneers were indulging in during the early days of Gippsland and how our returned soldiers turned farmers learned from books what they needed to know to prosper in a new world. When the tour is completed, you are welcome to explore the rest of our buildings at your leisure. The park and cafe close at 4pm. |
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Thursday, 14th May : Home & Hearth - Home Life Before Modern Convenience
Home & Hearth tours conducted by our volunteers will show how life in the home was like before modern convenience. Your tour guide will take you through the historic homestead of Angus McMillan called Bushy Park. This 1848 homestead shows you daily life at the time, changing roles and routines for the domestic woman as well as how households had to adapt to make way for new family members, visitors and passers-by when you lived in isolation. The park is 8 acres of gardens and many more buildings that you can explore after your tour, there is also a cafe on-site for your enjoyment. |
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~ Old Ghost Town Tours 2026 ~
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If you are interested in being a part of any of our events or volunteering to support us with an event please email [email protected] or call 5127 3082 during business hours Mon-Fri 10am till 4pm