Housed in two historic railway carriages of the same kind that were used to transport POWs, this sombre museum tells the story of the 'Dunera Boys' and the more than 6000 Italian, German and Japanese people who were interned in Hay prison camps during WWII.
Dunera Museum
Southern NSW & The Murray
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This interesting museum tells the stories of the Hay Gaol, which since 1880 has operated as a maternity hospital, an insane asylum, a POW-internment camp…
1.19 MILES
This wonderful public reserve has an excellent picnic area and a groomed swimming beach where you can float safely along the mighty Murrumbidgee. There's…
1.42 MILES
This beautiful, fascinating iron homestead (1888) was built by Bishop Sydney Linton to combat the heat. Surrounding the building is a historic rose garden…
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Shearers, rousies, wool classers, cooks and working dogs are all under the one roof in this historic working shearing shed where you can watch a shearing…