West Coast Heritage Centre

The West Coast Heritage Centre is a museum complex in Zeehan on Tasmania's west coast, housed in the former Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy (1896) and surrounding heritage buildings. It preserves and interprets the region's rich silver, lead and tin mining history through extensive collections of photographs, mining artefacts, minerals and machinery, and is notable as a key cultural institution for the West Coast.

Visitors can explore a complex of heritage buildings including the former School of Mines, the Gaiety Theatre and former hospital buildings, set on Main Street in central Zeehan. Inside are themed exhibition rooms with mining equipment, mineral displays, historic photographs, locomotives and community history collections. The site includes outdoor displays of mining machinery, a gift shop and interpretive signage explaining Zeehan's boom period as a mining town.

Housed in the former Zeehan School of Mines and Metallurgy opened in 1896 during Zeehan's silver-lead mining boom, when the town was Tasmania's third largest. The centre preserves the history of mining on Tasmania's West Coast, including silver, lead, tin and copper mining, and incorporates several heritage-listed buildings including the Gaiety Theatre and former Zeehan Hospital buildings.

Serves as the principal repository for West Coast pioneering and mining heritage, documenting the social and industrial history of communities such as Zeehan, Queenstown and Strahan and their contribution to Tasmania's development.