Bruce Rock Museum and Machinery Museum Overview

Bruce Rock Museum and Machinery Museum

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From a cabinet of curiosity to a museum.

The old bank has been given a new lease on life, with the Bruce Rock Museum located within its walls. Some of the rooms have been refurbished with items from the early to mid 1900s to tell the history of the bank manager's premises. The museum site contains a rebuilt cottage with the traditional hessian and lime rendered interior walls, a saddlery and workshop, and school. The Bruce Rock Machinery Museum is located directly across the road from the Museum.

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Address:

24 Johnson Street
Bruce Rock WA 6418
Australia

Tel:

(08) 9061 1091; 0427 611 108

Email:

lesliejanisk@hotmail.com

Opening Hours

If the Museum is not open, visitors can call the phone numbers on the outside sign of the Museum for a volunteer to open up, if it is convenient.

Monday to Friday 10am to 2pm.

Armadillo basket

Little armoured one

In a 'cabinet of curiosity', there is an armadillo basket from Rhodesia. The item was purchased by Mrs Butler who started a private collection, which eventually formed part of the Bruce Rock Museum...

Wooden washing machine

Get lily white washing

This washing machine would have been filled and emptied twice per load. Once to wash, and once to rinse. Without this washing machine, the clothes would have been washed by hand, using a washboard.The...

Cash Register

Not your ordinary cash box

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A historical village started by a small group of people

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A collection in a national trust stone building

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