Kimba and Gawler Ranges Historical Society Inc, South Australia

Kimba and Gawler Ranges Historical Society Inc, South Australia

• Kimba and Gawler Ranges Historical Society Museum, South Australia

• Community

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.

Kimba is a rural service town on the Eyre Highway at the top of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

Officer in charge: Secretary

Material relating to the local history of the Kimba District.

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.

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.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9-11am, 2-4pm; Sunday 1.30-4pm.
Closed Monday, Friday, Saturday.

One week's advance notice required including details of area of research, name and address.

General reference assistance available.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
• Agricultura (Thematic area)
• Educação (Thematic area)
• Family / Domestic Life (Thematic area)
• Genealogical (Thematic area)
• Local Studies (Thematic area)
• Transportation (Thematic area)