Cobb and Co Museum

The Cobb and Co Museum is positioned in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The museum become opened in 1987 whilst the Queensland Museum was seeking out space to show its catalogue of horse-drawn vehicles. Instead of taking on the huge amount of area required to display the gathering properly at its Brisbane campus, the museum decided to open up a new campus in Toowoomba. In 2001, a second degree changed into built onto the existing museum to create a space to show the history of Toowoomba and the Darling Downs. This extension added the entire museum space to over 2000 rectangular metres. The refurbished Cobb & Co Museum additionally allowed area to house the Museum Resource Centre for Southern Queensland.

An $8 million redevelopment of the Museum changed into undertaken in 2010. This blanketed the construction of a customized 'Factory' place to house facilities for ious history trades. Several extra galleries were additionally introduced at this factor. The museum now houses over 50, horse-drawn motors, including sturdy drays and farm wagons, that tell the tale of European settlement at the Darling Downs, whilst sulkies and buggies show transportation imported to Australia throughout the 1880s. Elaborate Phaetons, Victoria and Landau carriages deliver a glimpse of the grandeur of times whilst life's pace was a little slower. The unique Cobb and Co coaches, such as the final coach which ran from Yuleba to Surat in 1924, are the pride of the collection.