Contact principal
Eyre Highway, Kimba
Postal address: PO Box 71, Kimba SA 5641
Kimba, South Australia 5641
Zone d'identification
Identifiant
daa/280
Forme autorisée du nom
Kimba and Gawler Ranges Historical Society Inc, South Australia
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- Kimba and Gawler Ranges Historical Society Museum, South Australia
Type
- Community
Zone du contact
Assistant Secretary
Type
Adresse
Adresse physique
Eyre Highway, Kimba
Postal address: PO Box 71, Kimba SA 5641
Localité
Kimba
Région
South Australia
Nom du pays
Code postal
5641
Téléphone
08 8627 2205
Fax
Courriel
patbeinke8@bigpond.com
Note
Zone de description
Historique
Founded in March 1971, the Society aims to collect, archive and display local history items relating to Kimba and runs a heritage complex of eight historic buildings, various sheds housing pioneer domestic and farming collections and a separate museum/library centre, all in a bushland setting.
Contexte géographique et culturel
Kimba is a rural service town on the Eyre Highway at the top of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
Textes de référence
Structure administrative
Officer in charge: Secretary
Gestion des archives courantes et intermédiaires et politiques de collecte
Material relating to the local history of the Kimba District.
Bâtiments
The historic buildings, moved and rebuilt on the site, include an historic pioneer house, a one teacher school, a blacksmith shop, a government shed, a general store, a wheat buyer's hut and a telephone exchange. The interpretive museum centre is in a separate building.
Fonds
An interpretive museum centre contains the society's records, displays of smaller items, as well as oral histories, many photographs, newspapers and other documents, telling the story of the pioneering and development of Kimba town and district, dating from the 1840s. Themes include aboriginal to farming, Gawler Ranges, pastoral, police and telegraph.
Instruments de recherche, guides et publications
Zone de l'accès
Heures d'ouverture
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9-11am, 2-4pm; Sunday 1.30-4pm.
Closed Monday, Friday, Saturday.
Conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
One week's advance notice required including details of area of research, name and address.
Accessibilité
Zone des services offerts
Services d'aide à la recherche
General reference assistance available.
Services de reproduction
Espaces publics
Zone du contrôle
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision et de suppression
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Notes de maintenance
Mots-clés
Points d'accès
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
- Agriculture (Thematic area)
- Éducation (Thematic area)
- Family / Domestic Life (Thematic area)
- Genealogical (Thematic area)
- Local Studies (Thematic area)
- Transportation (Thematic area)