Research Centre
Was your family from Creswick, Smeaton, Kingston or surrounding district? Are you looking for information what the area was like when they lived in the area… why not visit the Research Centre?
Located on the corner of Raglan St and Cambridge St, Creswick VIC 3363
(in the old Infant Welfare Centre)
The Research Centre is a ‘keeping place’ for items relating to Creswick Borough and Shire, history and development. This includes a place for the storage of minute books and other paper materials relating to the various organisations which have and do operate in the community. The museum is working on digitising “Creswick Advertiser” from 1860 to 1972. (Please apply to the museum - not on Trove only WW1 editions)
Types of items included in the collection.
- Maps
- Books
- Photographs
- Newspapers (Creswick Advertiser digital copies)
- Documents / journals / minutes books / scrap books
- Primary source material for family history research
- Church Records
The museum has digitised it’s collection of photographs and offers a fee based photographic reproduction service.
Hours of opening
Saturday 11am to 3pm.
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Fees apply
- In person visit to Centre cost $30.00 per day
- Community groups Creswick and district cost $10.00 per day
- Written request $35.00 per request
Bank account details 633-000 Account 172541963
Submit your Research Request via our Contact form.
