Newcastle Museum

Newcastle Museum is a regional museum located in the Honeysuckle precinct of Newcastle, New South Wales, housed in the heritage-listed former Honeysuckle Railway Workshops. Established in 1988 and relocated to its current site in 2011, it focuses on the natural, industrial and social history of the Hunter Region. Notable for its interactive science centre, BHP steel industry displays and Aboriginal cultural collections, it is a key cultural institution on the Newcastle foreshore.

Visitors can expect a large museum complex within restored 19th-century railway workshops on the Newcastle Harbour foreshore. The museum features permanent exhibitions including Supernova hands-on science centre, Fire and Earth, and displays on Newcastle's industrial, railway and steelmaking history, plus Aboriginal cultural material from the Awabakal and Worimi peoples. Spaces include interactive science exhibits, historical objects, multimedia displays, temporary touring exhibitions, a cafe and museum shop. The building retains industrial heritage features with open workshop halls and outdoor forecourt areas.

Housed in the former Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops, dating from the 1870s-1880s, which serviced the Great Northern Railway. The workshops are heritage-listed for their role in Newcastle's railway and industrial development. The museum was established in 1988 as a bicentennial project and moved to the Workshop Way site in 2011, preserving and interpreting the city's railway, coal mining and BHP steelmaking history.

The museum preserves and interprets the cultural heritage of the Hunter Region, including collections relating to the Awabakal and Worimi peoples as traditional custodians, and the social and industrial identity shaped by coal, steel and port activities. It serves as a community cultural centre for education and regional storytelling.