Australasian Golf Museum

The Australasian Golf Museum is a specialist sports history museum located in Bothwell in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Housed in a historic sandstone building on Alexander Street, it documents the history of golf in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. It is notable for its close association with nearby Ratho Farm, recognised as Australia's oldest golf course established in 1822, and holds an extensive collection of clubs, balls, trophies, books and memorabilia spanning two centuries.

Visitors can expect a compact museum housed in the former Bothwell School sandstone building in central Bothwell. Inside are display rooms with historic golf clubs, balls, trophies, photographs, books, documents and memorabilia tracing Australian golf from the early 19th century to the present. Exhibits focus on Ratho Farm and the development of golf in Australasia. The setting is a quiet historic town with street parking and easy walking access to the exhibits.

The museum preserves and interprets the history of golf in Australia, with particular focus on Ratho Farm at Bothwell where golf was first played in Australia in 1822 by the Reid family. Ratho Farm is recognised as the oldest golf course in Australia and among the oldest outside Scotland. The museum, housed in the 19th-century sandstone Bothwell School building, was established to house the national collection of golf artefacts and archives.

The museum is the national repository for Australasian golf heritage, documenting the social and sporting development of golf in Australia and its cultural links to Scotland. It serves as a cultural attraction for the Central Highlands and highlights Bothwell's role in Australian sporting history.