About Porcupine Township
 Porcupine Township is not a museum. There are no glass display cases, or "Do Not Touch" signs. A whole goldmining town is laid out at your feet, awaiting
your leisurely discovery. All the buildings can be entered, their furnishings and contents touched and felt. Tools and implements can be picked up, and
you are able to sit in the coach and numerous carriages.. Would-be prospectors can try panning for gold, imagining what it must have been like to discover the 71 kilogram Welcome Stranger nugget. Anyone with building experience can examine the mud and daub huts,
the roofs constructed using pegs, and other 1850s building
techniques. |
 Porcupine Township offers tour
visitors many memorable and enjoyable experiences.
From an encounter with a bushranger on the motorised
train tour, to an opportunity to meet our three
draught horses, peacocks, emu and the resident
dingoes, there is something to interest everyone.
There are no blaring videos or technological
enhancements, the Township simply speaks for itself.
The fascinating collection of buildings and their
contents quietly pulls visitors into another world,
life in an 1850s goldmining town and diggings. Many
aspects of daily life in these chaotic times can be
experienced: the Cobb & Co coach and Drivers' Rest and
Change Station; Magetti's Wine Bar and Bowling Alley;
the Doctor's surgery advertising amputations at short
notice; the Undertaker's, and, of course, Spencer's
Hotel and the Bath House. The original diggings give
an idea of what it was like to work a 10 feet square
miner's claim, and the mullock heaps still contain
gold dust which can be extracted at the gold panning
pond. Porcupine Township is easily accessible for people with restricted mobility - the motorised train tour is a memorable experience by itself, and the Township is constructed on level ground. Our staff, many in period costume, provide interesting commentaries, and are available to answer questions. |