About Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum
The Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum is a local history museum housed in the former Highercombe Hotel (1854) at 3 Perseverance Road, Tea Tree Gully, in north-eastern Adelaide, South Australia. Operated by the City of Tea Tree Gully with the National Trust of South Australia Tea Tree Gully Branch, it preserves the district's settlement history. Displays include period rooms, photographs, documents, agricultural implements and domestic objects illustrating 19th and early 20th-century life in the area.
Visitors guide
Visitors can expect a small heritage museum set in a restored 1850s stone hotel building with surrounding grounds. Inside are furnished period rooms, display cases with photographs, documents, clothing, household items and farming tools relating to Tea Tree Gully's early settlement. Volunteer guides provide interpretation, and visitors can explore the former hotel rooms, outbuildings and garden area at a relaxed pace.
Key highlights
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Historic Highercombe Hotel building constructed in 1854
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Period-furnished rooms recreating 19th-century domestic life
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Local history displays of photographs, documents and artefacts
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Collection of agricultural tools and early settler implements
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Volunteer-guided interpretation of Tea Tree Gully district history