Stanley Discovery Museum

The Stanley Discovery Museum is a community history museum in Stanley on Tasmania's far north-west coast, within the Circular Head local government area. Housed in the former Stanley State School building on Church Street, it preserves and interprets the district's maritime, timber, agricultural and settlement history. Notable for its Huon pine display, Aboriginal and Van Diemen's Land Company collections, and genealogy centre, it offers insight into the heritage of Stanley and the surrounding Circular Head region.

Visitors can expect a small, volunteer-run museum set in a historic school building in central Stanley. Inside are displays on local maritime history, the Van Diemen's Land Company, Huon pine timber industry, early settlement, and Aboriginal heritage of the Circular Head area. Exhibits include photographs, artefacts, models, documents and a genealogy research area. The setting is compact and indoors, suitable for self-guided viewing at a relaxed pace.

Housed in the former Stanley State School building dating from the late 19th century, the museum preserves the history of Stanley, one of Tasmania's earliest settlements established under the Van Diemen's Land Company in the 1820s. Collections document maritime trade, fishing, Huon pine harvesting, agriculture and community development in the Circular Head district.

The museum serves as the principal repository for the cultural heritage of the Circular Head community, maintaining Aboriginal artefacts, settler records, photographs and genealogical archives that reflect the social history and identity of Stanley and the far north-west Tasmanian region.