Bond Store Museum

Bond Store Museum positioned in Maryborough. Walk the earthen flooring of this former save for her Majesty’s Customs Service and discover a time when opium changed into a legal import and the rum trade flourished. The middle of the constructing dates back to 1864 and nevertheless retains the unique floors, home made bricks and barrel rails. It supplied comfy storage for goods that attracted a tax including cigars, tobacco, rum, wine, spirits and opium. Today the Bond Store has been reinvented as a store for nearby produce and houses captivating displays and artefacts documenting Maryborough's Portside records.

For a unique revel in, e-book Tipples and Tales to pay attention to The Gauger's intriguing tales of the Bond Store's beyond as you sample local ports, liqueurs and platters. Available from Bond Store, Customs House, Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum and the Maryborough Visitor Information Centre. The Government Bond Store in Maryborough, one of the earliest brick buildings within the metropolis, was built in several tiers from 1863. The building served for decades as a shop for goods being processed with the aid of the adjacent Customs House.