Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum

Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum Museum opening hours - Wednesday 9am to 12noon and Sundays 9am - 1pm. Free entry

WE NEED YOU! The Light Horse Education Museum runs many great patriotic education sessions for local school and communit...
31/05/2026

WE NEED YOU!

The Light Horse Education Museum runs many great patriotic education sessions for local school and community groups each year. We need more volunteers to help deliver these great programmes to local schools and community groups.

An interest in history and bringing the stories of Australia's military history and national pride to the next generation is all you need, no military experience needed :) Our current volunteer team includes veterans, teachers and local lovers of history.

Message us if you'd like to know more.

Work continues on the 'Jack McDowell' room at the Light Horse Museum. Recent artefacts going into the room include some...
31/05/2026

Work continues on the 'Jack McDowell' room at the Light Horse Museum. Recent artefacts going into the room include some amazing battlefield relics that bring the history of far off battlefields to Mudgeeraba.

The room is named after the WW1 Military Medal winner Jack McDowell who won his MM for braving heavy enemy fire to provide food to soldiers on the front line, proving you don't need to carry a gun to be brave.

The Museum is open Wednesdays 9am - 1pm and Sundays 10am - 1pm and regularly by booking for school groups and community groups.

LAST DAY TODAY FOR OUR FUNDRAISING SALES AT BURLEIGH: The Museum has a stand selling fundraising items at Stockland West...
16/04/2026

LAST DAY TODAY FOR OUR FUNDRAISING SALES AT BURLEIGH: The Museum has a stand selling fundraising items at Stockland West Burleigh shopping centre. Stop by for an Anzac Day badge or commemorative item if you are in the area 🙂We are outside the ANZ bank at the Woolworths end of the centre. All proceeds go to museum conservation and to our school education programmes.

The Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum is proud to wish Dakota-Lily Bon voyage and the very best of luck! Pictured ...
11/04/2026

The Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum is proud to wish Dakota-Lily Bon voyage and the very best of luck!

Pictured here at Parliament House today with the QLD Premier and QLD Minister for Education.

A student from Upper Coomera State College, Dakota-Lily has taken out the 2026 Premier’s ANZAC Prize — an incredible achievement!

She filmed part of her award-winning 5-minute presentation right here at the museum, sharing why ANZAC Day matters to young Australians today. The Museum team was delighted to help her with her presentation and research.

Next stop: the Western Front, alongside seven other inspiring young Queenslanders. These students travel to Europe to represent QLD at various important Anzac commemorations including Anzac Day in France.

Congratulations, Dakota-Lily — we couldn’t be prouder! 👏

We need more young Aussies like you!

The Museum has a stand selling fundraising items at Stockland West Burleigh shopping centre until Friday the 17th of Apr...
11/04/2026

The Museum has a stand selling fundraising items at Stockland West Burleigh shopping centre until Friday the 17th of April. Stop by for an Anzac Day badge or commemorative item if you are in the area 🙂We are outside the ANZ bank at the Woolworths end of the centre. All proceeds go to museum conservation and to our school education programmes.

In the last two weeks we’ve enjoyed having a number of large school groups pass through our 'Patriotic Education' progra...
01/04/2026

In the last two weeks we’ve enjoyed having a number of large school groups pass through our 'Patriotic Education' programme that covers military and Australian history (national curriculum approved).

The genuine engagement and curiosity of these young Australians is a big part of what motivates our amazing team of volunteers to contribute the time and expertise that they have to the Museum and our educational programmes.

We are always looking for more volunteers to help out, no military experience needed, just a love of history and the willingness to learn (and a blue card) 😊

We are proud to be keeping our history alive and to be inculcating a sense of national pride into the next generations.

UPDATE ON HARRY THE POSSUM: Our resident Brushtail Possum 'Harry' had a group of visiting school kids captivated with hi...
29/03/2026

UPDATE ON HARRY THE POSSUM: Our resident Brushtail Possum 'Harry' had a group of visiting school kids captivated with his antics in the Schmidt Farmhouse last week.

As cute as he is, he's a messy little chap, and so his ingress down the old chimney into the farmhouse has been temporarily blocked until we can get a permanent plate atop the chimney. He's adorable, it's just not good for him, or for us, to be roaming around the farmhouse unsupervised. Plenty of better spots around the grounds.

If there are any local tradies who'd like to volunteer to get up and do that quick little rooftop fix safely for us - it will be greatly appreciated :)

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NEW TEMPORARY DISPLAY: In the room that will soon become the 'Jack McDowell' room (featuring exciting new displays and a...
29/03/2026

NEW TEMPORARY DISPLAY: In the room that will soon become the 'Jack McDowell' room (featuring exciting new displays and artefacts) we have on show the medals and some personal artefacts of LT Ray Matheson of the WW1 1st Light Horse. He served in the Light Horse in WW1 and again with the Army in WW2.

Meet little ‘Harry’ (our nickname for the resident Brushtail Possum, named after the famous ‘Harry Chauvel’). He keeps ...
22/03/2026

Meet little ‘Harry’ (our nickname for the resident Brushtail Possum, named after the famous ‘Harry Chauvel’). He keeps coming down the chimney of the Schmidt farmhouse, and we are working on getting the top of the chimney blocked with a simple panel.

If there are any volunteer roofer / tradie types to help us do that safely - it will be very welcome and greatly appreciated. 😊 In the meantime, we get the occasional pleasant surprise as Harry comes and goes from the farmhouse.

These possums are a wonderful, and protected, native species that are common around our Mudgeeraba area. Beautiful little characters, we just need to work on keeping him out of the farmhouse kitchen, because as cute as he is - he makes a mess!

Meet some of our young volunteers.The Museum has many volunteers, including some wonderful young volunteers who come in ...
01/03/2026

Meet some of our young volunteers.

The Museum has many volunteers, including some wonderful young volunteers who come in every Sunday to help with the grounds, artefact conservation and special projects.

These three young people are local high school students volunteering as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. This is a great programme for developing leadership, resilience and community service skills.

If you'd like to be a volunteer, whatever your age or experience, message us here or drop in to see us one Sunday morning :)

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Gold Coast, QLD

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9am - 12pm
Sunday 9am - 1pm

Telephone

+61418749715

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