Come and visit Toowoomba's hidden gem. Located on Mutze Street opposite Toowoomba’s airport terminal, the Transport and Main Roads Heritage Centre engages visitors with exciting exhibitions that provide a fascinating insight into the department’s contributions to the economic, social and rural development of Queensland.Visitors can travel through exhibitions showcasing the story of a department rich in history and culture. Displays cover a diverse range of themes from Aboriginal pathways, surveying and camp life to modern design, construction and maintenance. Discover this road planning, construction and design historythrough objects, text, photos, DVD presentations and interesting oral history excerpts. The museum offers the perfect opportunity to reflect and celebrate the journey of those who have helped shape the state.Children will meet an array of characters along their dedicated children's trail and ‘experience’ aspects of road construction history through interactive exercises. Machinery enthusiasts can enjoy the marvellous vehicles and road-building equipment on display. At event open days the whole family can experience external displays coming to life with demonstrations of blacksmithing, bridge pile driving and road construction machinery.The museum is proud to show how hard work and a pioneering spirit have helped create today’s road network that connects Queensland.
Phone: 07 4633 2506 Fax: 07 4633 2810
Email: heritage.centre@tmr.qld.gov.au Website: www.tmr.qld.gov.au
Address: 2-22 Mutze StreetToowoomba, Queensland 4350