Woods' Farming & Heritage Museum
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Photos & video

Have a look around before you drive out.

A few short walkthroughs and a wall of photographs. It still does not cover a tenth of it, but it will give you the idea.

Walk through it

Five short videos

These have no sound, so nothing is wrong with your speakers. Nothing loads until you press play.

34 seconds

The street of shops

Down the veranda past the Post Office, the butcher, the boot shop and the general store, with the telephone exchange on the way through.

34 seconds

The engine shed

Rows of restored stationary engines in green, red and cream, under walls hung with hand tools and enamel signs.

13 seconds

The sewing machines

Bench after bench of them, from treadle machines to the electric ones your mother had.

11 seconds

The tin collection

Around 2,500 collectable tins, shelved floor to ceiling and around the corner.

7 seconds

The model, and the bag wall

A large timber scale model, in the room hung with old wheat and fertiliser sacks.

The photographs

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Thirty-odd photographs from around the building. Use the arrow keys to move through them.

Clothing

A visitor walking between lit glass cases of wedding gowns
A cream bridal gown and veil on a mannequin
A long, bright aisle of glass cases holding the dress collection
Ball gowns in pink, blue and green in a lit case
A visitor looking closely at the wedding dresses through the glass
A long wall case of pale gowns running the length of the room
Beaded evening dresses in orange and deep blue

The street of shops

Visitors talking at the counter of the recreated grocery shop
A shop window stocked with vintage tins and packets
A visitor at the grocery shelves, handling an old package
A man and a boy at the grocery counter, backed by a wall of tins

The homes

A furnished parlour with dresser, mirror and washstand
A kitchen dresser set with clocks, jugs and enamelware above a wood stove
A volunteer setting the table with china in the furnished kitchen
The parlour fireplace and mantel mirror

Household, collectables and toys

Two children seen from behind, looking up at shelves of toy fire engines
Shelves stacked with toy fire engines from floor to ceiling
A volunteer beside a long wall of vintage sewing machines
A visitor in front of a wall of enamel advertising signs
Two visitors laughing beside shelves of collectable figurines and tins
A volunteer handling a small object at the workbench display
A visitor beside a wall hung with harness and saddlery
Two visitors looking into cabinets of bottles and framed pictures

Machinery and the sheds

Rows of tractors filling the shed, parked nose to tail down both sides
A long row of restored tractors and machinery
Tractors lined up down the length of the shed
Children beside a restored veteran car with red spoked wheels
Two boys looking at a row of restored stationary engines
Tractors packed in close under the shed roof

The people and the place

A large tour group gathered outside the museum
John and Michael Woods outside beside farm machinery
Visitors sitting down together for tea and biscuits in the reception room
A visitor reading the museum's framed photographs and records
Classic cars parked outside the museum below its large display panels
The museum's roadside sign on the Wimmera Highway
Better in person

None of this is a patch on walking in.

Open 7 days, 9am to 4pm. Allow a couple of hours.

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