Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre

01/04/2026

Visit Gum San these school holidays

16/02/2026

Happy Chinese New Year starting Tuesday 17th February

14/12/2025

Hours of opening for Gum San starting Monday 22nd December
We are open throughout Victorian School Holidays
Lots to see at museum and fun activities for children including gold panning and calligraphy.
Or you may wish to visit our gift shop

20/09/2025

02/04/2025

Throughout the School Holidays a “Spot it” game will be run for children to play with the prize of a Gum San Pin.

02/04/2025

Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre
Will be open throughout Victorian school holidays including Easter (except for Good Friday)
Open 10am -3pm

21/03/2025

What happens on Qingming?

We clean graves burn incense and paper money and make food offerings.

The Qingming Festival, literally meaning Pure Brightness Festival, is a day devoted to remembering and honouring the deceased, similar to All Souls Day.

Traditionally, during the Qingming Festival, a family will burn spirit money(joss paper) and paper replicas of material goods such as cars, homes, phones and paper servants. In Chinese culture, it is believed that people still need all of those things in the afterlife.
It is also customary to bring food offerings and/or flowers as a way of paying respects to the deceased. The act of visiting a tomb to clean and present offerings is to honour the memory of the deceased and demonstrate a sense of care and respect for their final resting place.

Come along with a bucket and sponge or cloth to clean some headstones then light some incense and joss paper (supplied) in memory of all of those buried in the cemetery.

20/01/2025

Happy Chinese New Year Starts on Wednesday 29th January
This year it is the Year of the Snake
The snake brings with it wisdom, transformation, calmness and creativity