Kilkivan Shire Museum

The Kilkivan Shire Museum contains a comprehensive display of ore and mineral samples common to the district, photographs and documents relating to mining, forestry, dairying and town, school and family histories of Goomeri, Kilkivan, Widgee and Woolooga.

The main building has rooms furnished in the style of yesteryear, for example, a parlour, bedroom, general store and barber shop. Fettler’s barrack houses a schoolroom and kitchen. Large slab shed contains buggy and wagon, mining, farm and forestry tools. A genuine stockman’s hut, made from slabs of laundry and containing original contents, has been relocated to the museum grounds.

There is an unmanned Visitor Information Centre in the front of the main building, which is open every day to visitors and tourists for approximately seven hours.