Latrobe Courthouse Museum

Explore the town's history.

 

Discover the story of Latrobe’s early European settlement (including agriculture, forestry and shale oil industries) through changing displays and rich photographic collections.

Plan your Visit

Latrobe Courthouse Museum

Address:

113 - 115 Gilbert Street (next to the Post Office), Latrobe, TAS 7307. Less than 10 minutes drive from Devonport and the Spirit of Tasmania.

Open:

Tuesday - Friday, 1.30pm – 3.30pm

Closed:

Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years' Day, Good Friday, & Public Holidays
Closed July and August

Phone:
General enquiries: (03) 6426 1289
Entry Fees:

Adults $5 I Children $2

What we offer:

Nearby attractions: Latrobe and Spreyton (historic towns) and Home Hill, Devonport.

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Three Favourite Things

The date of this silk scarf is unknown, but is thought to be from the 1940's. The scarf has been embroidered with semaphore flags and the alphabet around the border and the words “Long May He Wave”. Allied soldiers bought these souvenirs to send home to their mothers, sisters, and sweethearts.

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Three Favourite Things

This image from the collection shows Gilbert street flooded. There are six men on a horse-drawn cart and one man and two youths in the foreground, up to their knees in water. This photograph was taken on 27 May 1893.

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Three Favourite Things

This musical box was manufactured in France in 1885. In Victorian times death was a constant narrative. The diorama depicts an astrologer as a skeleton, a reminder that we will all die one day. The musical box is in working order and plays excerpts from Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

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