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...
Embroidery Exhibit Display 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...
The members of the Busselton Historical Society have still not been able to start cleaning inside the museum, since the fire on March 26th, this year. However over the last nine weeks, a group of volunteers have been very busy transporting smaller items from the museum to the temporary museum premises...
Last Thursday, 17th May, Consultant Conservator, Vanessa Roth Wiggin from Artworks Conservation, delivered a workshop advising and demonstrating on the correct methods, products and tools for cleaning the artefacts that were damage by smoke and soot in the recent fire. A collection of artefacts have been...
On 27th March,2018 at 4.04pm , a fire was reported at the Busselton Old Butter Factory Museum in Peel Terrace, Busselton.In 2 hour,severe damage was caused to the first floor main gallery and smoke and water damage to several other rooms. A lot of precious artefacts ...
The 100 Year Birthday Celebrations of The Old Butter Factory was a attended by 0ver 1,000 people. Officially opened on the Saturday 10th March by Mr David Templeman, Minister of Heritage, Culture and the Arts seen here with Busselton Historical Society stalwart, Alan Scott. The attached...
The Old Butter factory is 100 years old and we want to celebrate this weekend: Saturday 10th March "BY INVITATION" EVENT for all past employees, 9.30am - 1.00pm Sunday 11th March, "THE MUSEUM COMES TO LIFE PUBLIC DAY", 10.00am- 4.oopm...
The Busselton Historical Museum has well over 1000 photographs depicting life in Busselton, since settlement to the present day. If your interested in the social and physical history of Busselton, then you just might find what you are looking for in our free to view photographs [caption...
Each of the cream cans had a plate soldered on with the farmer’s name, weight of the can on the lid and on the bottom so there would be no mix ups at the factory. After the cans were emptied at the factory,the main can for...
[caption id="attachment_17235" align="alignnone" width="300"] Mr & Mrs J Banfield,early settlers of Yoongarillup bought this "Gladiator" car at the Paris Exhibition for 200 pounds, including freight, exchange and insurance.This car had one cylinder, was a two seater and got 32 miles to the gallon @16 miles and...