Kingaroy Heritage Museum

30/09/2026

MUSEUM OPEN | October long weekend

Kingaroy Heritage Museum will be open from 9am - 1pm this Saturday and Sunday for the October long weekend.

Entry is free. We look forward to welcoming you!

23/09/2026

22/09/2026

School Holidays Activities in our Museum 📜🎖

Are you looking for some fun activities for the kids or grandkids for the holidays but also want to help them learn?

Come into our Kingaroy Heritage Museum these school holidays!
Located at 128 Haly Street Kingaroy (entrance is inside the Kingaroy Information Centre), we have on offer a peanut hunt as well as a scavenger hunt for the little ones to try and find items around our museum.

The Kingaroy Heritage Museum is open Monday 9am-4pm, Tuesday 9am-1pm, Wednesday to Friday 9am-4pm. Keep an eye on our page for announcements of special weekend openings!

We look forward to seeing you here!

17/09/2026

Standing beside his great-grandfather's wagon, Trevor walked us through the Hansen family's journey to Kingaroy.

Along with insights into the hand-tooled carpentry work of the time, we learned about Peter's role in building Kingaroy's original Carrollee Hotel in 1904, and his wagon's journey to Kingaroy Heritage Museum from Hervey Bay in 2020.

Thank you to Trevor and everyone who joined us to learn more about this piece of living history.

02/09/2026

Heritage Talk | The Hansen Wagon

Saturday 12 September, 9.30am
Kingaroy Heritage Museum

Kingaroy local, Trevor Hansen, tells the story behind his great-grandfather’s hand-built wagon, a beautiful example of Danish craftsmanship that carried the Hansen family and their possessions into Kingaroy over a century ago.

Join us for this for this free event!

26/06/2026

School Holidays Activities in our Museum 📜🎖

Are you looking for some fun activities for the kids or grandkids for the holidays but also want to help them learn?

Come into our Kingaroy Heritage Museum these school holidays!

Located at 128 Haly Street Kingaroy (entrance is inside the Kingaroy Information Centre), we have on offer a peanut hunt as well as a scavenger hunt for the little ones to try and find items around our museum.

The Kingaroy Museum is open 9am-4pm, Monday-Wednesday and Friday and open some Saturdays from 9am-1pm (please check google to see if we are open before coming).

We would love to see you there!

18/06/2026

Can you help us name this item?

We are looking for some help to name this item we have in our museum. We think it may have been used in early logging.

We would love to hear any suggestions or see any photos of how it was used.

27/05/2026

Taabinga Cemetery Walking Tour 🪦

On Saturday the 16th of May, the Kingaroy Heritage Museum held a walking tour at the Taabinga Cemetery with a total of 45 people in attendance.

It was a lovely day learning about the symbolism and meaning behind certain headstones, as well as getting to know the history of some of our local pioneers and their contribution to our area.

Stories from the following were included: John Freshwater, Ann Pugh, Frederick (Freddie) Horne, George Venman, Archibald Blue, Auguste (Granny) Strohmeyer, Howard Goodger, Anna Desjardin, Frederick Spencer, Hans Larsen, Jens Christiansen, Helena Hurley, Emma Miller, Amy Stehbens, and John Willmer.

Many enjoyed the tour and would love to see this happen again.

25/03/2026

Kingaroy Heritage Museum Open Day!! 🏛📜

The Kingaroy Heritage Museum held their second, and now annual, Open Day on Saturday the 21st of March.

Our volunteers worked hard organising the event which turned out to be a great success. There was a great turn out of locals and visitors coming in to see the Museum, Information Centre and Art Gallery and to shop at the stalls behind the centre. We even had a lovely visit from Deb Frecklington MP, Mayor Kathy Duff, Councillor Potter and Councillor Little.

The volunteers kept busy talking to all of our visitors about the history of the area and items in our museum. They had free peanut money boxes and stickers for everyone and also had a fun guessing game of peanuts in a bag. Our lucky adult winner who guessed the exact number, was given a lovely hamper supplied by the information centre and the two children who tied won a large koala toy each. The kids also had fun taking part in the peanut hunt and scavenger hunt.

Our stalls included Barambah Beekeepers, Fiery Fish Farm, Light Up Your World Candle Creations, QCWA, Playing with Glass, Taabinga Lions Sausage Sizzle and Amy’s Ice Cream & Coffee.

Everyone had a great time at the Open Day!! Thank you for all who could come and see the wonderful museum and thank you to all the volunteers who put in so much time and effort organising the event.

If you unfortunately missed the event, we hope to see you all next year!

20/03/2026

Open Day!

Tomorrow is our Kingaroy Heritage Museum's annual open day. Bring your friends and family for a nice day out and enjoy the sausage sizzle, a coffee van serving delicious drinks and some stalls selling some local items.

Come have a wander in our museum and be amazed about Kingaroy's past. We will even be holding a free "Guess how many Peanuts in the Bag" competition. Our adult's winner will be awarded with a hamper made by our Kingaroy Information Centre and the children's winner will receive a big koala toy. Just come into the museum to put in your guess.

We look forward to seeing you there! 🥳