Image: Moonta Mines Museum (former Moonta Mines School) at Moonta, South Australia
Description: Moonta Mines Museum (former Moonta Mines School, 1878–1968) on Verran Terrace, Moonta, South Australia. From the National Trust SA website: The museum is located in the former Moonta Mines Model School, erected in 1878. The school remained an active and important centre for the Moonta Mines community for ninety years and closed in 1968. The museum tells the story of Cornish pioneers who came to South Australia for the copper mines 1861-1923. It has 14 rooms and houses thematic displays on the Cornish miners’ lifestyles – mining, lodges and friendly societies, sports and pastimes, death and hardship, extensive displays of costumes, china, silverware, photographs and memorabilia and a classroom furnished in the c.1900 style.
Title: Moonta Mines Museum (former Moonta Mines School) at Moonta, South Australia
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Author: Alan & Flora Botting
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