The Gold Museum Ballarat

We had a lovely sleep in today after our late night last night it was fantastic to relax a while. We got up at 8.30am. Annabel made us pancakes for breakfast. They were very yummy. After slowly getting ready at about 11.00am we headed off to the Gold Museum. It was across the road from Sovereign Hill. It actually has free entry if you have been to …

... watching the street theatre which was quite funny. After a couple of hours we had seen enough and moved over to see the Gold Museum across the street as it was included in the price of our ticket. The museum wasn't even worth visiting even though you ...

... Went to the gold shop and held onto a real gold nugget and that was pretty good. Drove out to Sovereign Hill and the Gold Museum but the entry fees were ridiculous so we decided not to go in.  Much colder here in Ballarat.  We are dragging out ...

... at the place without actually seeing everything. We missed the big underground tour (we did the small one) and we also missed the gold museum but we thought that could wait till another day. We saw some really great things while we were there. Most of ...

... down a main street and old houses used by the workers of the day.  After seeing the recreated town, we headed to the gold museum and saw some of the original tools used by the miners of Ballarat and how the region boomed during the gold rush of the ...

... around some of building in the town. There was only a handful of people there braving the weather. I then headed across the road to the gold museum, which documented the town at the time of the goldrush and had a large display of gold coins from lots of ...

... have worked. We had a fun afternoon and left at closing time feeling pretty tired. The next morning we went to the Gold Museum beside Sovereign Hill. We saw how gold forms in the earth and learned its importance/influence throughout history. By noon we ...

... Hill where gold was discovered in 1851. Sovereign Hill is a pioneer village kind of set up. Also included was entrance to The Gold Museum where we saw replicas of nuggets of gold up to 4.4 kg, some found as recently as 2000 ish by metal detectors in ...

... all day. I found less than the full afternoon to be plenty. On the other side of the Sovereign Hill site is the Gold Museum, which sensibly closes half an hour after the main place, so visitors can see both. This was built in an extremely modernistic ...

... & half hours to get there & it was a very nice drive lots of farm life. We got to Sovereign Hill at 9:30 so we went to the gold museum first as it opened at 9:30. It wasn't that interesting but we saw a lot of gold hehehe. After that we than went in the ...

... a theatre company; we only guessed that it must have got some of its funds from the museum or vice versa.  The gold museum exhibits were numerous and beyond detailed- if you were a gold enthusiast then this place would seem like Heaven.  We ...