
The Workshops Rail Museum - General Admission
All aboard The Workshops Rail Museum for an eye-opening journey through the rail state’s history.
The Workshops Rail Museum, part of the Queensland Museum Network, is winner of Australian and Queensland Tourism Awards for Heritage & Cultural Tourism.
All aboard for a wholly interactive authentic heritage and cultural experience located at Australia’s oldest railway workshops still in operation.
Make history come alive with hands-on exhibits, multi-media encounters and colourful stories coupled with huge steam locomotives and massive industrial machinery.
Meet some true Aussie characters as you step into a real heritage railway workshop and see it in operation, just as it has been for 150 years. See genuine restoration of the Heritage Steam Train Fleet up close and hear living history from railway workers – plus a few tall stories!
Explore over 15 larger-than-life exhibits to discover the enormous impact rail has had on our lives, beautifully restored carriages, the largest model railway of beautiful Queensland, the future of rail and treasured icons including the Vice-Regal carriage and Australia’s oldest working steam locomotive.
All aboard The Workshops Rail Museum for an eye-opening journey through the rail state’s history.
Join heritage trade blacksmiths Rob Scully and Wayne Schmidt and learn techniques such as drawing and upsetting.
Join silversmith Jemica Ostrofski for a lesson in metalsmithing at The Workshops Rail Museum.
Get ready to celebrate the Roaring Twenties at this year's Prohibition Party.
Explore the Workshops Railway Museum’s darker side in this unique guided torchlight tour of the site and the exhibitions at night.
Join heritage trade blacksmiths Rob Scully and Wayne Schmidt and learn techniques such as drawing and upsetting.
Learn how to design and fabricate a textured, mixed metal ring using recycled metals with silversmith Jemica Ostrofski.