Back O' Bourke Exhibition Centre
Outback NSW
This superb exhibition space follows the legends of the back country (both Indigenous and settler) through interactive displays. The centre also houses…
Must-see attractions in Outback NSW
Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum
Broken Hill
This iconic Australian institution has a visitor centre at the airport. There are stirring displays and stories of health innovation and derring-do in the…
Outback NSW
A 33km semicircle ('lunette') of sand dunes, the fabulous Walls of China has been created by the unceasing westerly wind. From the visitor centre a road…
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
Broken Hill
This impressive gallery is housed in the beautifully restored Sully's Emporium from 1885. It's the oldest regional gallery in NSW and holds 1800 works in…
Living Desert Sculpture Symposium
Broken Hill
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…
Outback NSW
Remote and beautiful, Mungo National Park covers 27,850 hectares (68,790 acres) and echoes with over 400 centuries of continuous human habitation. A 33km …
Broken Hill
This exceptional 690-sq-km park, 163km from Broken Hill, lies in the Byngnano Range – the eroded and sculptured remains of a 400-million-year-old seabed…
Broken Hill
One of the most memorable experiences of Broken Hill is viewing the sunset from the Living Desert Sculpture Symposium, on the highest hilltop 12km from…
Outback NSW
Taking in vast stony plains, the towering red-sand hills of the great Strzelecki Desert and the unusual flat-topped mesas around Olive Downs, this park…
Broken Hill
The first mines were walk-in, pick-and-shovel horrors. For an eye-opening experience, tour this historic mine (dating from the 1880s) where you squeeze…
Broken Hill
Teetering atop the silver skimp dump is this moving memorial with memorable views. It houses the impressively stark Cor-Ten steel memorial to the 900…
Broken Hill
There are three well-marked driving trails through this park surrounding the Menindee Lakes: River Drive (20km), Lake Drive (18km) and Woolshed Drive (6…
Outback NSW
One of 17 lakes in the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area, the dry lake bed of Lake Mungo, within the Mungo National Park, is home to many…
Broken Hill
Kevin 'Pro' Hart (1928–2006) was a former miner and is widely considered one of outback Australia's premier painters. His iconic work is spread over three…
Broken Hill
The road beyond Silverton becomes isolated and the horizon is vast. Just 5km from town, this lookout, a glorified roadside dust-mound at the highest point…
Outback NSW
Around 6km west of Wentworth (signposted off the Broken Hill and then Renmark roads), these low orange sand dunes date back 40,000 years. They are at…
Broken Hill
This is probably the last thing you expect to find out here, on the edge of nowhere: an eclectic collection of original Mad Max movie props and…
Albert Kersten Mining & Minerals Museum
Broken Hill
This Broken Hill museum houses fascinating displays (and a mind-bending video) which explain how the richest lode of silver, lead and zinc in the world…
Broken Hill
Born in 1927, Jack Absalom is one of the celebrated 'Brushmen of the Bush', a group of five artists that hailed from Broken Hill (Pro Hart was another…
Broken Hill
This is home to the Big Picture, an amazing 100m-by-12m diorama of the Broken Hill outback – the work of one painter, completed over two years. It's…
Outback NSW
You can see some local history in this interesting museum across the road from the Old Wentworth Gaol. There are eclectic exhibitions including a…
Outback NSW
Bourke’s fascinating cemetery is peppered with epitaphs such as ‘perished in the bush’. Professor Fred Hollows, the renowned eye surgeon, is buried here…
Outback NSW
The point where the Darling River flows into the Murray lies in Wentworth's southwestern corner. The riverside park, accessible from Cadell St, has…
Silverton Gaol and Historical Museum
Broken Hill
The 1889 Silverton Gaol once housed 14 cells. Today the museum is a real treasure chest: room after room is crammed full of a century of local life …
Outback NSW
At the northwestern end of town, the Wentworth Gaol is a fascinating step back in time; it opened in 1881 and was in operation until 1927. There's an…
Sulphide Street Rail and Historical Museum
Broken Hill
In the heart of downtown Broken Hill, this interesting museum has a bunch of rusty old rolling stock and rooms full of artefacts relating to local history.
Broken Hill
The School Museum is a good history pit stop, tracing Silverton's local school from its earliest incarnation in a tent in 1884.