Sights in Broken Hill
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Sculpture Symposium
A striking range of work on a hilltop northwest of town was created in 1993 by 12 international sculptors. They were responding to the limitless landscape, using some 52 tonnes of Wilcannia sandstone, borrowing the local miners' old tungsten carbide chisels to dent the tough rock, and camping in tents near their work.
The Sculpture Symposium took shape with names like Under the Jaguar Sun and Moon Goddess. The colours of the stone change constantly with the light. Bring water in summer, and consider visiting at dawn or sunset, to add another dimension to the romance of this wonderful place. The sculptures are signposted off to the right along Nine Mile Rd. Get the keys fo…
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Daydream Mine
The first mines were walk-in, pick-and-shovel horrors. For an amazing experience, tour the historic Daydream Mine, where you squeeze down the steps with your helmet-light quivering on your head. Daydream was established in 1882 and the guide has tales of baby-faced miners, which will have you giggling nervously. Sturdy footwear is essential for the one-hour tour.
It's a scenic drive off the Silverton road, and the café serves the best Devonshire teas while you wait for the next group to venture into the mine.
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Miners Memorial
The huge silver skimp dump, which makes up Broken Hill's stark backdrop, also features the moving Miners Memorial. The memorial commemorates the deaths of over 800 men who have died in the mines since 1883. The list of the dead includes Dario Palumbo, an architecture student from the University of South Australia, who died suddenly during his work on the project, and whose story truly captures the emotions. The Broken Earth Café & Restaurant is attached.
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Pro Hart Gallery
The Pro Hart Gallery houses the excellent work of Pro Hart, who died early in 2006. He was a former miner and is Broken Hill’s best-known artist. The gallery also holds a superb collection of Australian art (such as Brett Whiteley’s Nude, Norman Lindsay’s Selena and Albert Tucker’s Australian Girl in Paris ) and several works by international artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
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Line of Lode Miners Memorial
Teetering atop the huge silver skimp dump is the moving Line of Lode Miners Memorial. It houses the impressively stark Cor-Ten steel memorial to the 900 miners who have died since Broken Hill first became a mining town. Inside the monument, a sobering series of plaques for each year itemise an appalling litany of gruesome deaths.
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Railway, Mineral & Train Museum
There is more local history at the Railway, Mineral & Train Museum. The museum is in the Silverton Tramway Company's old station. The tramway was a private railway running between Cockburn (SA) and Broken Hill via Silverton until 1970.
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Silver City Mint & Art Centre
Silver City Mint & Art Centre is home to a chocolate factory and the Big Picture (admission $5), the largest continuous canvas in Australia, an amazing 100m-by-12m diorama of the Broken Hill outback.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service
The Royal Flying Doctor Service exhibition includes the fascinating Mantle of Safety Museum, with lots of quirky stories and things to see. Tours run during the week, or visit the museum at any time.
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Delprat's Mine
There's an excellent underground tour at Delprat's Mine where you don miners gear and descend 130m in a cage for a two-hour tour of stopes and working equipment. Delprat's is signposted across the railway tracks.
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Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
The must-see Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery is housed in the beautifully restored Sully’s Emporium. It is the oldest regional gallery in NSW and holds 1500 works in its permanent collection.
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Thankakali Art Gallery
Thankakali Art Gallery is the Aboriginal cultural centre, located in an old brewery. It has an extensive gallery and a range of hand-painted arts, crafts and didgeridoos by local artists.
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GeoCentre
GeoCentre is an interactive geology museum, with beautiful and rare minerals and crystals on display and lots of touch-and-feel exhibits. It’s also home to a 42kg silver nugget.
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Bells Milk Bar & Museum
On the other side of the hill, the old commercial hub of Patton St is a slice of 1950s nostalgia. Sip on a ‘soda spider’ in a high-topped glass at Bells Milk Bar & Museum.
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Afghan Mosque
The Afghan Mosque is a simple corrugated-iron building erected around 1891. Afghani cameleers helped open up the outback; the mosque was built on the site of a camel camp.
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Trades Hall
Trades Hall, built between 1898 and 1904, houses the Barrier Industrial Council. It features a pressed-iron ceiling over its elaborately detailed interior, restored in 1988.
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Owl Barn
Owl Barn has hundreds of owls, local crafts and memorabilia on display in a quirky old pub with its roof burnt off.
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Former Synagogue
The Former Synagogue dates from 1900, but it closed in 1962 and the religious scrolls were sent to Melbourne.
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Photographic Recollections
The wonderful Photographic Recollections exhibition is a pictorial history of Broken Hill.
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