History and Heritage

History Reimagined

By creating something new and wonderful, whilst still honouring the beauty and heritage of the majestic gold rush architecture, the perfect fusion of old and new has been uncovered as magnificent buildings have been reinvented.

Discover your family history

Our heritage is the story of our place and our community. Who, where and what we are and how we live. The stories of our heritage are our shared history and the remnants of that history, both tangible and intangible, are what our community members, historical societies, museums and story tellers hold and protect.

Victorian Goldfields Railway

Step aboard Victoria’s longest broad gauge heritage railway, running between the historic gold mining towns of Castlemaine and Maldon—just as it has since 1884.

Maldon Vintage Machinery and Museum

The Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum has a huge and varied collection of all kinds of machinery. From a Merryweather and Sons hand-pumped fire appliance to an operating Linotype machine which was used in the printing industry.

Maldon District Museum

The Maldon District Museum contains a large and diverse collection of several thousand artefacts from the district.

Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park

Take a trip back in time to the Victorian Goldrush at Castlemaine Diggings Heritage Park. Located at the heart of the central Victorian goldfields, this is a rare place where you can see authentic traces of days gone by. Explore abandoned mines and settlements among shady Box-Ironbark woodlands.

Buda Historic Home and Garden

Buda is an authentic goldfields villa house and garden located in Castlemaine Central Victoria. Named after Budapest by its Hungarian owner, Ernest Leviny.

Guided Walking Tours of Castlemaine

Want to learn more about this fascinating goldrush region? Explore the central streets of Castlemaine on a guided walking tour with a local history expert.

The Storyteller's Guide to the Goldfields

The Storyteller's Guide to the Goldfields is an entertaining collection of short audio tours that introduce you to the historical goldfields and Jaara Aboriginal Sites on self-navigating tours. Produced by Jan 'Yarn' Wozitsky - a local story-teller and musician - each audio tour has rich stories told by fun and entertaining historians, complemented by wonderful music to help set the scene.