The Bible Museum

14/12/2025

We extend our heartfelt condolences and prayers to the Jewish community in Australia, after the terrible massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach, by Islamic jihadists.
Australia's Bible Museum has a window display about the festival of Hannukah, to show our support at this tragic time. The story of Hanukkah is told in the books of the First and Second Maccabees. These Jewish history books are in Greek Bibles, and the Apocrypha, and were in the early English Bibles, including the 1611 King James Bible.
Jesus Christ visited Jerusalem at the feast of the dedication (Hannukah), in winter. He walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. (John 10:22,23)
Hanukkah, “the festival of lights”, or “feast of dedication”, commemorates the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent re-dedication of the Second Temple following the Jewish Maccabean Revolt against the Grecian Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BC.
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.” Isa 40:1

12/11/2025

The Bible Museum is on Melbourne's Jewish Radio English language programme tonight (12th Nov 2025). The interview is with Jean and Ellen Reid and goes to air at 9pm. You can listen to it live online or catch up later with the podcast. Use the link below:

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30/08/2025

It appears that the biblical Pool of Siloam has been discovered in Jerusalem. A small amount of the dam wall was discovered over a century ago, but recently archaeological digs have revealed the full size of this massive pool or dam. Read more here: https://www.timesofisrael.com/huge-dam-shows-ancient-jerusalem-adapted-to-climate-change-with-advanced-engineering/
and
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/29/jerusalem-site-where-jesus-healed-blind-man-discovered

Archaeologists believe the discovery provides a ‘tangible’ link to the place described in the Bible

15/05/2025

Our Butterfly Garden has taken off! Some of the monarchs have moved on and are now in the local St Arnaud Queen Mary Gardens. Our butterfly garden & flight house will close over winter shortly, and will reopen in November.

02/04/2025

The Bible Museum is open for extended hours over Easter 2025.
Open: Good Friday (18th April) - Open 10am-4pm, Easter Saturday- Open 10am-4pm, Easter Sunday - Open 12pm-2pm, Easter Monday Open 10am-4pm, Wednesday (23rd April) - Open 10am-4pm.
Free admission, donations are welcome. Morning and afternoon tea will be available.
Then our usual hours after that, Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12 noon - 2pm.
If you would like to visit outside our usual opening hours for walk-ins, please phone/txt/email your preferred date and time, so we can see if we have staff available to open for your visit.
Groups are strictly by pre-booked appointment only, please contact us with your preferred date and time.
Australia's only Bible Museum is located at 125-133 Napier Street, St Arnaud, Victoria 3478. Email [email protected], phone 0499 545 149 or 03 5495 1169.
Check the website for more information, www.thebiblemuseum.com.au.

30/03/2025

Australia's Bible Museum is now open for group visits. Strictly by pre-booked appointment, please email, phone or txt us with your preferred date and time. Usually group visits to the Bible Museum last around 1.5-2 hours. A guided tour is provided, featuring highlights of the collection and visiting the flight house in the Butterfly Garden (at the rear). The Butterfly Garden is only open from November to May.
Free admission, donations welcome.
Morning and afternoon tea will be available, most groups have lunch in the town.
We are available usually most days of the week or weekend for groups visits, which is why pre-booking is essential.
The Bible Museum welcomes pre-booked groups: Church Groups, Tourism, Youth, School, Community, Probus, Rotary, Lions, YMCA, and large families. In fact, any sort of group! We can host groups from 8 to 50+, although we usually only host one bus group at a time.
Many groups enjoy a 'mystery tour' to the Bible Museum, where the group only finds out the destination after they get here. The museum tailors the guided tour to suit different types of groups, to make it more interesting for them. You don't have to be religious to enjoy a visit here.
The Bible Museum is run entirely by volunteers and is a non profit charity.
It is located at 125-133 Napier Street, St Arnaud, Victoria 3478.
Phone: 0499 545 149 or 03 5495 1169. Email [email protected].
Check the website for more details: www.thebiblemuseum.com.au

06/03/2025

The St Arnaud Tourist Information Centre volunteers visited the Bible Museum yesterday. The volunteers were given a ‘highlights’ tour, so they could inform tourists about some of the experiences the Bible Museum has to offer. The museum has new features and displays, and the collection has tripled in the last 15 years. The volunteers visited the butterfly flight house and garden, and were able to take a butterfly chrysalis home, so they could watch a butterfly emerging.

12/12/2024

Australia's Bible Museum 2024 Christmas/New Year opening hours (including Butterfly Garden):
Christmas Day (25 Dec): Closed, Boxing Day (26 Dec): 10am-4pm, 27 & 28 Dec: 10am-4pm, 29 Dec: 12pm-2pm.
New Year's Day: 10am-4pm, 2 Jan: 10am-2pm.
Current opening hours: Friday & Saturday: 10am-4pm
Sunday: 12pm-2pm.
Visit us at 125-133 Napier Street, St Arnaud, Victoria 3478.
www.thebiblemuseum.com.au
Ph: 03 5495 1169 or 0499 545 149.
Free Admission, donations welcome.
Note: the Butterfly Garden will be closed if the temperature is over 35C, as the butterflies in the flight house will be roosting.