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Attractions in Echuca, Victoria.

In a modest building shaded by an ancient Morton Bay Fig tree, looking out over the timeless Murray River, as it has for generations, is the priceless collection of memorabilia of the riverboat era and earlier Echuca life, is the Echuca Historical Museum, operating from the ‘Old Cop Shop’ an 1869 Police Station and Lock Up, which is classified by the National Trust. It is a place to spend hours lost in reverie, knowing that the documents and me...

1 Dickson Street
Echuca
Victoria
3564

61354801325

In a modest building shaded by an ancient Morton Bay Fig tree, looking out over the timeless Murray River, as it has for generations, is the priceless collection of memorabilia of the riverboat era and earlier Echuca life,
is the Echuca Historical Museum, operating from the ‘Old Cop Shop’ an 1869 Police Station and Lock Up, which is classified by the National Trust.
It is a place to spend hours lost in reverie, knowing that the documents and memorabilia displayed were used by men and women who helped open up vast areas of the inland to settlement and made Echuca of 1860 the most important inland port in Australia.

Wander at leisure through rooms filled with riverboat photographs, records of massive floods, original river charts used by the old skippers and relics of the important saw-milling industry.
Memorabilia from the founders of our twin towns Henry Hopwood and James Maiden both ex-convicts from Lancashire.
Reminders of the Chinese population which flourished in earlier years.
Inspect the primitive goal cells of the former lock up, used until 1969, and peruse scenes of local identities.

Groups are invited to visit at a time to suit their program with openings outside of normal hours available by phoning 03 54801325 between 11am and 3pm. Coach tour guides available by arrangement.

Your hosts: Volunteers of Echuca Historical Society.
Opening Hours: Daily 11am - 3pm