Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum

The Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum is a community museum in Wallaroo on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, housed in the historic 1865 Wallaroo Post and Telegraph Office on Jetty Road. It preserves and displays the town's copper mining, smelting and maritime history, including shipwrecks, port development and local social history. Notable for its extensive collection of nautical artefacts, photographs, models and mining memorabilia, it illustrates Wallaroo's role as a major copper port in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Visitors can expect a heritage museum housed in the former Wallaroo Post and Telegraph Office near the Wallaroo foreshore and jetty. Inside, rooms display maritime artefacts, ship models, photographs, navigational instruments, copper mining and smelting memorabilia, and local social history collections. The setting is a compact historic stone building with curated indoor exhibits, interpretive panels and volunteer guides explaining Wallaroo's port and copper heritage.