Step back in time to Ballarat’s gold rush days with an immersive outdoor museum experience!
See the Victorian gold mining era come to life at Sovereign Hill, discover age-old trades and crafts with demonstrations and hands-on activities.
This fully immersive outdoor museum is brought to life with characters in period costume walking the streets of this reproduction of an 1850s mining town.
Learn traditional skills from rope making to candle dipping and watch demonstrations by our talented confectioners, blacksmiths and wheelwrights. Test out your gold panning skills, tour the mine, watch the street performances and take part in the free and paid activities available throughout the day.
Choose Between:
General Admission - enjoy free activities and demonstrations.
General Admission + Devonshire Tea - enjoy free activities/demonstrations and indulge in a delicious morning or afternoon tea.
General Admission + Mine Tour - enjoy free activities/demonstrations and a guided mine tour.
Extra paid experiences can be booked on the day.
All prices are shown in AUD ($)
Definitely chepaer!
Highly recommend a visit to Sovereign Hill! We were blown away by the scale of the place, experiences on offer and the staff. If you can stretch the budget definitely recommend a mine tour and a photography session!
Good experience to have with children. However, to make it an exceptional experience more explanatory information would be useful outside each building, what it would have been made with, who made it, when, where were the items sourced from etc. for example, Were the clothes trained in, did the locals weave their own cloth, make their own glass for the windows? Was it sent from UK? What wood was used for the coffins? Who were the undertakers etc? Clarifying the times as opening at 10am yet hardly any shops were open for business. Horse rides and demonstrations happened as we left at 2. There weren’t any animals in the pens- horse area wasn’t made available to the public as this would have heightened the experience. The mine trip was fun. Access to the poppet head was great too as it allowed for a great view over the area.
Cheap price thank you
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chengy1 from Australia wrote on 03 October 2024
excellent
really nice experience, especially gold mine tour, strongly recommanded