Cygnet Living History Museum

Cygnet Living History Museum Find us at www.clhm.org
Keeping Cygnet Tasmania's history fresh and alive We aim to open 7 days a week, but this is dependant on volunteer availability.

The Cygnet Living History Museum serves as both the repository for the area's history and also functions as the de facto Cygnet Information Centre. We rely solely on volunteers, all of whom are happy to help visitors with suggestions and directions. If you are interested in joining our merry band of volunteers, we'd love to hear from you! Drop in to our showroom for a visit (across the road from t

he IGA) or send us an email via [email protected]. If you would like to make an appointment in advance to ensure access, please email us with your preferred date and time. Our Vision is to empower our future through an ever-evolving connection with the past of the Port Cygnet area. Our Mission Statement: We collect, preserve and share the history of the Port Cygnet area, keeping it alive for future generations

25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AT CLHM
24/11/2025

25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AT CLHM

It’s the 25th birthday of the Cygnet Living History Museum! Over these years our local museum has collected a large amou...
24/11/2025

It’s the 25th birthday of the Cygnet Living History Museum!
Over these years our local museum has collected a large amount of history of this area - photographs, books, oral histories etc – even two organs - and put on many different exhibitions. To celebrate our birthday the museum is inviting you to come in for a cuppa and biscuit and have a look around.
Have you always thought, “I must pop in to the museum” but never quite got round to it? This is your chance to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and chat with the wonderful volunteers who can tell you things you never knew about our town and the surrounding area. The comments in our visitors’ book are constantly positive and reflect so well on the museum volunteers who have kept our doors open for the past 25 years. Last year, we had over 2,000 visitors!
The museum was started in 2000 by a small group of women, led by May Salter who realised that so much history was going to the tip when older residents died and there was nowhere to keep their photographs and memories.
The first project was to document the houses that had been in Cygnet since 1900, followed by exhibitions on the early timber industry, boatbuilding, apples, including of course the Apple Festival, and more recently the New Settlers who took up land in the 1970s and 80s after the 1967 bushfire and the collapse of the apple industry. Throughout the 25 years the museum has been housed in the hall of the Uniting Church – a wonderful old building for which the museum is very grateful to the church.
You will be most welcome to visit the museum and help us celebrate this landmark birthday, Monday 24th November to Sunday 30th November, 11am to 3pm. Drop in for a cuppa and a piece of history!

Find Us at the Kingborough Community HubFom Tuesday October 7th to Sunday October 12thSee our display - Watch our slides...
06/10/2025

Find Us at the Kingborough Community Hub
Fom Tuesday October 7th to Sunday October 12th
See our display - Watch our slideshow

(Sorry - Museum in Cygnet closed during Exhibition ... volunteers wanted!)

As we participate in the:
Huon and Kingborough History & Museum Network Exhibition and Conference
https://events.humanitix.com/huon-and-kingborough-history-and-museum-network

Bringing together local museums and history groups in Southern Tasmania

EXHIBITION Tuesday 7th - Sunday 12th October

TEN museums & history groups in ONE room
Kingborough Hub, 7 Goshawk Way, Kingston
Hours: 10am - 4pm

CONFERENCE on SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER
with 6 speakers, from 9.30am - 3.30pm

Speakers will include:
* Andrew Tomes, who will talk about using eHive to manage museum collections.
* Warwick Lee will talk about the Tasmanian parliamentary papers
1856-1901 which have recently been digitised in a large project.
* Dr. Imogen Wegman will speak about the Family History programme at UTAS.
* Fiona Cameron from Volunteering Tasmania will be talking on the benefits of being a member of VT.
* Lara Colrain - Curator from the Channel Museum will speak on preserving artefacts, and author and historian Richie Woolley will also speak.

The exhibition is gold coin donation, and children free. Please register if you are coming along to the conference.

Hear Ye! ~ Hear Ye!Yes, it's that time again., and our apologies for the late date change.🥲The Cygnet Living History Mus...
09/08/2025

Hear Ye! ~ Hear Ye!
Yes, it's that time again., and our apologies for the late date change.
🥲
The Cygnet Living History Museum
Annual General Meeting
Will be held on
Saturday the 16th of August 2025.
Please be there for a 10am start,
at the museum - 37 Mary Street Cygnet.

All Welcome.
We look forward to seeing our members there
and any interested wanabe volunteers.

Address

37 Mary Street
Cygnet, TAS
7112

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 2pm
Tuesday 11am - 2pm
Wednesday 11am - 2pm
Thursday 11am - 2pm
Friday 11am - 2pm
Sunday 11am - 2pm

Telephone

+61362029713

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