2022 Museum Gala Day
The Busselton Historical Society is hosting its annual open day at the Museum which will celebrate the Dairy Industry in the Busselton area on Sunday 2nd October 2022. Entry to the Museum will be half price and will include entry to the studios of the Woodturners and Pottery Club. During the day there will be […]
2022 Pickup of historic bible for 34th WA Governor’s Swearing-in ceremony
Chris Dawson, who is currently the WA Commissioner of Police, will be sworn in as the 34th Governor of WA on the 15th of July 2022. Mr Dawson is also the great great grandson of Elijah Dawson who was one of the colonial pioneers of the Busselton area. Mr Dawson has requested that he be […]
2022 Winter Opening Hours Commencing
Sadly, it is that time of the year where the days are getting shorter and the Museum will be changing over to our winter opening hours. As from Wednesday 20th April the Museum opening hours will change to 10am to 2pm, Wednesday to Monday. As there is so much to see make sure that you […]
2022 Embroidery Exhibit
In February the Busselton Historical Society hosted an Embroidery exhibit at the Busselton Museum that proved very popular with our visitors. This special exhibit, called “A journey through the eye of a needle from 1900’s embroidery to modern-day pieces” was curated by long term member of the Busselton Historical Society Research Team, Penny Swingler, with […]
2021 Seasons Greetings
The Busselton Historical Society would like to wish everyone all the best for the holiday season and take this chance to thank you for all your support in 2021. It has only been a year since we reopened the Museum and so much has happened in this year. We have completed many projects to improve […]
2021 100 Year Anniversary of Group Settlement
The Busselton Historical Society would like to thank everyone who helped us celebrate the 100 Year Anniversary of Group Settlement at the Museum in such style on October 3rd 2021. We were blessed by the weather gods and we were very pleased that so many descendants of the Group Settlers were able to attend. Special […]
Schools Open Day October 11 and 12 – 2017
The Museum is happy to announce the 2017 Schools Open Day – a visit by your class will help bring to life the Curriculum “Local History” section. We will be open on both days from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and the children are welcome to have their morning tea and lunch in the museum […]
Construction of the Horse
NEW DISPLAY! Over many months in 2015/2016 our band of willing volunteers have put in an amazing effort to design and construct a life size model of a Dray Horse and its handler to accompany the re-furbished Sleeper Cutter’s Dray. This painstaking work took the best part of a year, quite often working much longer hours than the […]