Talbot Arts & Historical Museum

Opened in 1984 in the former Primitive Methodist Church (opened 1870), the museum is four museums in one, comprising of the Communications Museum, Dunach School No1412, Amherst Hospital Isolation Ward and the Talbot Arts & Historical Museum.

The museums contain a wide range of items of historical interest including photographs, maps, paintings, exhibits and family histories which record aspects of the working like, domestic needs and leisure activities of the people in the early goldfields of the Talbot region. See how the pioneers of the gold mining township met the early challenges of the harsh land and research your own family history.