West Coast Heritage Centre

West Coast Heritage Centre (formerly known as the West Coast Pioneers Museum) is a complex of buildings and collections in Main Street of Zeehan, Tasmania in West Coast Tasmania in Australia.

The complex and centre are currently managed by the company West Coast Heritage Limited [1]

History

The closure of the Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy in the 1960s saw the founding of the Pioneers Museum in 1964 [2]

The components of the centre include:

Notes

  1. West Coast Heritage Ltd. (Tas.) (2013), West Coast Heritage Centre, Zeehan, West Coast Heritage Ltd, retrieved 12 May 2016
  2. page 185 of Atkinson, Sue, (Museum consultant), (compiler.) (2012), Tasmania : island of treasures, 40 Degrees South, ISBN 978-0-9874468-1-7
  3. West Coast Pioneers' Memorial Museum (Zeehan, Tas.) (2010), Welcome to West Coast Pioneers' Museum, Zeehan, Tasmania : visitor information, [Zeehan, Tasmania] [West Coast Pioneers' Museum], retrieved 12 May 2016
  4. Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy (1890), Prospectus for ... : including reports, balance sheets, syllabus of instruction, results of the annual examinations, etc., etc, Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy, retrieved 12 May 2016
  5. "ZEEHAN POST OFFICE.". The Advocate (Australia). Tasmania, Australia. 2 October 1926. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  6. "ZEEHAN COURT HOUSE.". The Examiner (Tasmania). XIII, (9). Tasmania, Australia. 10 January 1903. p. 5 (DAILY.). Retrieved 12 May 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  7. "GAIETY THEATRE.". Launceston Examiner. LVIII, (250). Tasmania, Australia. 20 October 1898. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  8. "SALE OF GRAND HOTEL AT ZEEHAN.". The Mercury. CXVIII, (17,320). Tasmania, Australia. 11 April 1923. p. 6. Retrieved 12 May 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  9. Taylor, Sue Jane; West Coast Pioneers' Memorial Museum (Zeehan, Tas.) (2009), Mineworks, West Coast Pioneer Museum], retrieved 12 May 2016
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