Names

The Apollo Bay Museum

IDs

ABM001

http://www.apollobay.org.au/history/index.htm

Descriptions

The Apollo Bay museum is housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with the mainland. It is operated by the Apollo Bay and District Historical Society.

The Apollo Bay museum is housed in the buildings from which the undersea cable connected Tasmania with the mainland. It includes displays of relics from shipwrecks and ships that were the primary means of access before the Great Ocean Road opened. It also has an extensive range of histories of the people who created and sustained this remote community recorded in a number of small publications about the area, its people, life and the shipwrecks. Titles include: Apollo Bay: 150 Years of Settlement by Rosemary Bellair & Joan Martin; Battler by the Bay by I.P. Cave & L.E. Hunt; A Bike Ride along the Ocean Road (1929) by T. Wohlfahrt; A Community of Care: 50 Years of health care in Apollo Bay and the Otways by Peter Griffiths; Journal of an Expedition to Cape Otway (1863) by Miss Parkinson; Shipwrecks Along the Great Ocean Road by Jack Loney and many more. The Apollo Bay and District Historical Society also has extensive records relating to early European pioneers.

This collection illustrates the significance of transport and communications in a remote town in Regional Australia over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Please contact the Apollo Bay Museum

Please contact the Apollo Bay Museum

Subjects

Heritage buildings; Public buildings; Rural areas; Ships; Shipwrecks

Local history

Coverage Spatial

Great Ocean Road Australia; Cape Ottway, Victoria, Australia; Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia

Coverage Temporal

1800

1950

Related Collections

Dates

2012-05-30 23:43

2011-06-07 15:18