Events & exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Megawatt

The Workshops Rail Museum

How do we make electricity? Will we ever run out? Do animals use it? Fire ants, electric guitars and safety switches are all featured in the Megawatt exhibition. Push, pull, press and play safely with electricity and explore the role of electricity in our everyday lives.

150 Years of Toowoomba Through The Chronicle Lens

Cobb+Co Museum

Celebrating 150 years of Toowoomba's own newspaper, The Chronicle

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920 - 1970

Museum of Tropical Qld

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970, a travelling exhibition developed and presented by the National Museum of Australia, features some of the key moments of Aboriginal activism. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Tropical Queensland on 4 November.

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Upcoming Events

  • Steam Shop Tour

    01 January 2010 - 31 December 2012

    Take a Heritage Railway Workshops Tour into the Steam Shop to hear a Queensland Rail worker talk about the process of building and maintaining heritage locomotives and carriages. See what heritage rollingstock is currently being restored.

  • Blacksmiths Shop Tour

    01 January 2010 - 31 December 2012

    Take a Heritage Railway Workshops Tour into the Blacksmith Shop to hear a Queensland Rail ‘smithy’ talk about working in the 100 year old Blacksmith Shop and the various machines and tools still in use on a daily basis.

  • M[YOU]SEUM 150

    20 January 2012 - 31 July 2012

    To celebrate 150 years of collecting and connecting, Museum curators have chosen 150 objects from the collection stores that help us tell the story of Queensland

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