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Welcome to the Woodsdale Museum Complex website where you find information on the old Woodsdale State School that was built in 1884 and closed down in 1965. The school building consists of the school room which has changing displays and a residence which has been furnished in the late 1800s.

The Sheep Shearing Interpretation and Farm/Community sheds which were established in 2009 house artifacts from the time of settlement of 1860. With live shearing shows, a resident ghost, farm machinery and much more on display.

Woodsdale Fair Day

March 11th

2012!


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Shearing Interpretation

Welcome to Tasmania’s only Sheep Shearing Interpretation Shed where you will step into the year of 1860 when shearing was one of the main jobs in this area. Listen to the ghost shearer of Woodsdale reminisce about his days in this shearing game. Move through the shed into the present day where visitors will see the process of wool from straight off the sheep’s back to the finished product through multi media and displays.

Visitors will have chance to work out which wool samples belong to the different varieties of sheep found around Tasmania and to see and touch Smitten Merino garments.

School Residence

The Woodsdale Museum is located between Oatlands and Runnymede on the Woodsdale Road. The museum is run by volunteers in the area and events held at the museum are lunches, morning teas, school groups, festival days and meetings.

The museum consists of a school house set up in the period of the late 1800s, school room with changing displays every 3 months, sheep shearing interpretation shed from the 1860s to the present day and a Men’s/farming shed with drays, Douglas 1924 motor bike to a Thylacine trap.

Community Shed

Enter into a world of where it was hard yakka building a home in the mid 1800s with primitive tools in what was once very dense bush land. The trials of the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) causing havoc with the farmers sheep which was soon under control with the use of a tiger trap and the Governments “one pound a pelt” scheme. See this display of the trap and tiger put together by the local Levendale Primary School students.

Imagine yourself delivering groceries to your neighbours from “Levenbanks” to Woodsdale in the small horse drawn trap in all weather conditions. These are just a few of the many objects on show in the farm shed which also runs as a Men’s Shed.



Upcoming Events

11th March 2012- Woodsdale Fair Day