York Residency Museum

The York Residency Museum is a local history museum housed in the 1852 former Government Residency in York, Western Australia's oldest inland town. Located on Brook Street near the Avon River, it displays colonial-era artefacts, photographs, and social history collections illustrating early settlement of the Avon Valley. The heritage-listed building itself is a key exhibit, notable for its colonial architecture and former use as residence, hospital and administrative centre.

Visitors can expect a small heritage museum set in a single-storey colonial brick building with verandahs and garden surrounds. Inside are several rooms displaying period furniture, domestic objects, agricultural tools, photographs, documents and Noongar and settler history exhibits. The building retains original features and outbuildings. Visitors explore at their own pace or with volunteer guides, viewing interpretive panels and collections that illustrate 19th and early 20th century life in York and the Avon Valley.

Built in 1852 to designs associated with Henry Trigg as the Government Residency for the Resident Magistrate of the York district, notably Walkinshaw Cowan. Served as residence, government offices and later as a hospital and other community uses. Represents early colonial administration of the Avon Valley and is listed on the State Register of Heritage Places as one of York's oldest surviving government buildings.

Illustrates the social and cultural development of York, Western Australia's oldest inland town, and the Avon Valley. The collection preserves settler and community history, agricultural heritage and local stories, contributing to understanding of colonial settlement and regional identity in Western Australia.