Old Tailem Town Pioneer Village

Old Tailem Town Pioneer Village is Australia's largest pioneer village located on the Princes Highway at Tailem Bend in the Coorong District, South Australia, about 100 km southeast of Adelaide. The open-air museum recreates an early 1900s country town with more than 100 relocated and replica historic buildings including shops, church, school, bank and garages, displaying period furnishings, machinery, vehicles and memorabilia illustrating pioneer life in the Murray Mallee region.

Visitors can expect to explore a large outdoor village laid out along unsealed streets with more than 100 historic buildings that can be entered and viewed. Interiors are furnished with period furniture, shop displays, household items, farm machinery, vintage cars, trucks and horse-drawn vehicles. The setting is open and rural with gravel paths, gardens and picnic areas. Visits are self-guided with opportunities for sightseeing, photography and viewing collections depicting early 20th-century rural South Australian town life.