Cottage Museum, Rylstone

Cottage Museum, Rylstone Collecting, assessing and preserving objects relative to the early history of the Rylstone District. The Museum displays focus on domestic and rural life.

The Cottage Museum is housed in a simple 1890s weatherboard home built for local blacksmith, James Nash. It is located in the Rylstone and District Historical Society precinct which is located at the northern of the main street of Rylstone and consists of The Cottage Museum, the Thyme Out Community Garden and the handsome heritage listed Bridge View Inn. They include costume, rustic furniture, kit

chen and small farming tools, schooling and musical instruments. Also on display are photographs of pioneers, the town and district. The Rylstone district was explored soon after the settlement of Bathurst in 1818. In search of good grazing land, explorers pushed north and found the rich Capertee, Cudgegong, Lue and Bylong valleys. Flocks and settlement followed. The village developed as a centre serving large pastoral properties. By the 1870s and 80s, wealth from fine wool, horse breeding, fat cattle and the nearby Turon River gold fields saw Rylstone become a social and government centre, with numerous Victorian era sandstone buildings that continue to give it great charm today.

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A large, musically inclined family, attired in their Sunday best for their family portrait, Hill End, NSW 1872.
Mitchell Library Negative
Number 70204

"Gold & Silver" by Keast Burke
Photographs of Australian Goldfields from the Holtermann Collection

In 1952, Keast located the Holtermann Collection of wet-plate negatives & recommended it's donation to the Mitchell Library, Sydney. All the negatives were untitled & the process of accurate identification was a lengthy one. Eventually, enlarged & titled, the photographs were displayed throughout Australia! Unearth more

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Address

28-30 Louee Street
Rylstone, NSW
2849

Opening Hours

10am - 3pm

Telephone

+61263791840

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