Maldon Vintage Machinery & Museum

The Maldon Vintage Machinery & Museum is locaated on the site of the once rich Great Western Cymru Company Mine. Listed on the Heritage Inventory, the museum can only be described as a flywheelers haven with many treasures in working order, But and there is a big but we are so much more, our museum has evolved into an incredibly unique display of history covering many eras.

Highlighting how life was once worked and lived, with the use of hand tool, horsepower, to the industrial revolution with engines and electricity to solar power, moving towards the way we live today.

Below is just a small glimpse of the wonderful displays and artifacts at the Museum

There is all manner of agricultural machinery, from crosscut saws and artefacts and all sorts of Engines, ploughs, harrows, Sheep Equipment and hay Equipment.
There’s Aunty Jack, a 9 horsepower Marshall engine. The Museum Logo and town favorite. a 1877 steam driven engine
There is the 100 year old steam driven electric generator, valued at more than $700.000
Cornelius Pedis- 1849 Edinburgh built Steam engine. Known to be the only one in the world.
Our Fire shed houses Maldon’s first fire engine and memorabilia. With uniforms from different era and styles of Fire fighting, extinguishers, Competition Running, Pumps, Radio, Images and so much
Then there is the Tarrangower Times (the local ‘rag’) printing press,
The old town weighbridge and office.
including a giant very rare marble switchboard and an equally rare upright Steam driven Pump all from Thompson’s foundry.
Large pieces of machinery of Thompsons early manufacture have been donated and are on display. Many Thompson Pumps, mining equipment, generators etc…..
Gold displays
Dairy Display
The ‘Thompsons Drawing Office’a place where Draftspersons, students and interested personnel can visit for an insight as to how drawings were prepared prior to the computer CAD programing age.
Equipment and items manufactured from drawings in the museum’s possession are still in use today. The museum is able to provide reference for restorers of these items and therefore assist with heritage matters across Australia.
The Maldon Vintage Machinery and Museum works with the Maldon Men’s Shed, Goldfields Railway, Maldon Easter Fair. Maldon Folk Festival, Maldon Inc. and Many other organisations within the community that promote History, Tourism and working together for the good of the community at large.

The Thompsons Foundry Drawing Office and Archival collection is of State significance. The collection is historically significant as a body of evidence of a working foundry and engineering company.

The collection is also significant for its ability to demonstrate technical achievements in Australian and Victorian engineering; specifically, the company’s innovations in the area of centrifugal pumps. It also has outstanding provenance, including its current custody by knowledgeable people with a direct relationship with a number of its components.

Our collection has great research potential due to its association with places of national, state and local heritage significance around Australia, such as the Castlemaine Diggings Heritage National Park. The research potential of the collection is enhanced by the high level of intactness of the recordkeeping system and its various components, and the ability of the various archival components to inform each other.

Our Members are all very proud of what we have achieved in the few years of hard work and dedication.

The Maldon Vintage Machinery and Museum has plans to keep growing and moving forward. Ensuring the community of Maldon has a Museum they can be proud of and will remain a place for visitors and families for years to come,

Entry is by donation.