Cobb+Co Museum

Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba, Queensland, is part of the Queensland Museum Network and houses the National Carriage Collection. Located on Lindsay Street, it preserves the heritage of Cobb & Co. coaching and 19th-century transport in Australia. Notable for its 47 horse-drawn vehicles, working heritage workshops, and interactive displays on transport, settlement and local history, the museum offers educational exhibitions and live demonstrations of traditional trades such as blacksmithing and wheelwrighting.

Visitors can expect an indoor museum centred on horse-drawn transport history with the National Carriage Collection of 47 restored coaches, buggies and wagons. The site includes exhibition galleries on transport, Toowoomba and natural history, plus working heritage workshops where blacksmiths, wheelwrights, leatherworkers and other trades demonstrate traditional skills. There is a café, gift shop, and family-friendly interactive areas. The museum is located in central Toowoomba near Queens Park.

The museum preserves the history of Cobb & Co., Australia's most famous 19th-century coaching company that operated horse-drawn mail and passenger services from 1853. It houses the National Carriage Collection, the largest collection of horse-drawn vehicles in Australia, illustrating transport, settlement and trade development in Queensland and the Darling Downs.

As part of the Queensland Museum Network, the museum showcases traditional trades and transport heritage significant to Queensland's social and industrial history, with working workshops that maintain and demonstrate heritage crafts such as blacksmithing, wheelwrighting and saddlery for community education.