Stansbury Museum

Yorke Peninsula


Lording it over the local school yard (this used to be the headmaster's house), Stansbury's museum digs into the town's post-colonial history with a proudly curated collection of rusty farm stuff, seagoing memorabilia, old clothes, bottles, photos and domestic remnants (don't get your fingers caught in the mangle).


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