About Us
Founding Committee
Our committee was founded in 2007 with a vision to purchase and restore several historic buildings and set up a professional museum for the township. Our first President Neville Anderson had a passion for local history and we continue to follow his original guidelines for our organization.
As a registered charity we’re actively fundraising to continue our work and our professional affiliations (Australian Museums and Galleries Association, Royal Australian Historical Society, National Trust and NSW Oral History Association) allow us to apply for grant funding for these endeavors.
Mission Statement
To become an integral, functioning part of the school and wider educational community in order to enlighten both current and future generations about the history of Walla Walla and surrounds through the establishment and operation of a museum and all its associated activities.
Walla Walla, NSW Australia. Town established in the Riverina, 1868 by German Lutherans from South Australia.
Our Objectives:
- To educate, inform and entertain visitors and client groups in aspects of Australian, and particularly local, educational history, heritage and culture, including demonstrating and passing on skills, arts, crafts and attitudes of our local rural pioneers.
- Add to the diversity of the region’s economic, cultural and social fabric through adding to and expanding available opportunities in historical education, cultural experience and tourism.
- To use its influence to secure the preservation of places of historical interest such as homes, buildings cemeteries etc., acting both alone and in conjunction with other like-minded bodies and individuals.
- To establish branches wherever and whenever it may be deemed advisable.
- To re-enact historical events and experiences pertaining to the early settlement of Walla Walla and its surrounding district with a view to improving the appreciation of their heritage by both participants and spectators.
- To provide an authentic historical location for film production, seminars and meetings.
Support Us
Old School House Walla West Museum Inc.
Bank Name: BankWAW
BSB: 803070
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 101131
As a registered Not for Profit Organisation, all donations over $2.00 are tax deductible.
Thank you for your support.
Walla Walla 125th Anniversary, November 1994. Left to Right: Gloria Feuerhert (nee Wenke), John Wenke.