Daylesford Museum & Historical Society

Our building was originally the School of Mines, built in 1891 and by 1914 extended and renamed as a Technical School. The school was relocated in 1960s to a new complex at Smith Street.

One of few intact secondary school buildings from this period in Victoria still with its unique gold assaying furnace room and chimney.

The building and reserve is managed by a Museum Reserve Committee , on behalf of the Victorian State Government with DEECA.