Kentish Museum

Tasmania


There’s all sorts of historic clutter on display here: an early telephone exchange, old organs, military paraphernalia and the world’s first automatic petrol pump, invented by a local Sheffield boy. It has a genealogy research service, which costs $22 per hour.


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