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Welcome to the Apollo
Bay Museum |
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The Apollo Bay museum
- housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with
the mainland - is operated by the Apollo Bay and District Historical Society.
It is located at 6250 Great Ocean Road, Apollo Bay 3233 - near Wild Dog Creek. |
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Museum opening: |
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The museum is open at Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays and school holidays
from 2:00pm to 5:00pm and at other times by prior
arrangement for group visits. It includes
displays of relics from some of the shipwrecks and ships that were
essentially the primary means of access before the Great Ocean Road and
of the life of what was an extremely isolated community. |
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Books and
family histories |
The museum has a very
extensive range of histories of the people who created and sustained
this remote community.
Many books about the area, its people, life and the shipwrecks are
available for sale, for example:
"Journal of an Expedition to Cape Otway (1863)"
"The Loch Ard Disaster"
"Shipwrecks Along the Great
Ocean Road"
"Battler By the Bay"
- memoirs of Albert Stanford - and see the associated
genealogical records
For a more complete
list of books available from the museum see "books"
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If you have family who have a
connection with 'the Bay', and are interested in tracing more
background, contact the museum for more information.
If you have information about the Bay's past we'd be very grateful if
you could share it with us. |
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A brief history |
View a thumbnail summary of the first hundred
years of settlement at Apollo Bay
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Society meetings: |
Meetings are held at
10:00am on the 3rd Monday of the month at the museum |
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Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the history of the Apollo Bay
district and costs $10.00 for an individual membership or $15.00 for a family
membership, per year. |
For further information contact the museum during open hours (
Phone 03 5237 7441) or the Secretary by email at
apollobayhs@gmail.com
