Cromwell Museum

The Cromwell Museum provides a fascinating insight into the unique and multi-layered history of Cromwell.

The Museum was initially developed in the 1980’s to showcase the Clyde Dam project which created a new lake and drowned the original town centre of Cromwell. Some displays are based on material uncovered by archaeological work done at that time.

Cromwell was founded on the gold rushes of the mid 1800s, becoming a respectable Victorian town by the early 1900s surrounded by orchards, mining, chafer beetles and river dredges. Troubled by floods, sand storms, rabbits and even typhoid, the Museum showcases Cromwell's depth and variety. Located in the Cromwell Mall it is a must to visit here.

Today the Museum offers a research library and collection that spans areas of domestic and agricultural items, gold mining, dredging and coal mining, the formation of Lake Dunstan, sub fossil deposits, moa bones, Chinese artefacts, and the Ron Murray photographic collection.