Mt Wood Pastoral Museum

Sturt National Park

Many of the items from the old Mt Wood Museum can now be seen on display at Tibooburra Courthouse.

Sturt National Park, one of the first parks acquired through the Foundation, is made up of a number of former grazing properties and consequently contains wonderful relics of early settlement including old, rusted steam engines which were used for processing wool.

The Foundation funded a pastoral museum at Mt Wood Homestead to display relics of the 1880-1910 era. Mt Wood Homestead also provides visitor accommodation.

The park’s office in Tibooburra adjoins the historic court house, which was purchased by the Foundation.

In 1996, following restoration of Mount Wood Homestead for visitor accommodation, the museum was dismantled and large parts of the collection were moved to Tibooburra Courthouse, where they are now on display at the National Parks Visitor Centre.