Our opening exhibitions feature a wide selection of photographs, stories and artifacts from our collection. These physical displays are supplemented by five video presentations, each of which can be viewed on separate touch screens located with each theme. Current video themes include: The First Australian Grand Prix; The First Phillip Island Bridge; Chicory and Phillip Island; Shipwreck of The Speke and Phillip Island’s First Land Sales. Read more about each of these topics under OUR STORIES or click on VIDEO to go to our YouTube Channel. Interactive touch-screen displays complement our collection. Broadbent’s Official Milage Map of Phillip Island. Restored figurehead from The Speke shipwreck. A cross section of displays in the Museum. Ventnor Primary School display. Painting of Cowes in 1883. Enter our Museum via the Cowes Library.
Phillip Island’s History Museum is located at Berninneit, the brand new cultural and community centre in Cowes. Read more on Berninneit here: Berninneit – new cultural centre in Cowes | Engage Bass Coast The link will take you to the website of Bass Coast Shire Council.
