The Channel Museum features permanent, pop-up, and temporary exhibits that showcase Aboriginals (Oyster Cove), early exploration, timber, boat building, fruit growing, fishing, sport, churches, transport, the 1967 bushfires, militaria, and general domestic life. We have a scale model of a whaleboat, displaying whaling equipment in perfect detail. Our depiction of a school room, shop, and colonial-
style rooms (kitchen, bedroom, laundry, stable/dairy and workshop) display aspects of everyday life in the past. The Electrona Carbide Works is unique in Australia and has its own display. There are specialty displays comprising the Don Norton Camera Collection and two rooms depicting the home life of Dutch migrants in the 1950s. A collection of vintage farming machinery, housed in a separate exhibition space, is an ongoing project. The Waldie Reading Room is a library where visitors can research local and family history or simply browse our extensive collection of books, folders, maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
