New opening hours for Tweed Regional Museum, Tweed Heads

01 August 2018

Boyd’s Shed is next stage of ongoing refurbishment

The Tweed Heads branch of the Tweed Regional Museum will open to the public every Sunday between 10am and 4pm from Sunday 5 August.

Tweed Regional Museum Director Judy Kean said the Museum was delighted to now be able to welcome visitors to the Museum every Sunday rather than just once a month.

“The opportunity to fully enjoy this valuable community space every weekend has been realised just as the extensive refurbishment of the Museum’s heritage buildings is nearing completion,” Ms Kean said.

The ongoing refurbishment of the Tweed Heads Museum heritage precinct commenced in 2015 with each stage opened upon completion. The original Tweed Heads Court House reopened with a range of new displays in October 2017. In April 2018, the new access pathway allowing visitors to better appreciate this important heritage building was also completed.

The next stage of work is now focusing on Boyd’s Shed.

The fishing prowess of the Tweed’s Boyd brothers, together with role that the shed played, is well remembered by locals and well documented in the Museum collection.

“This wonderful building, long used by the Boyd family, has a rich history and is full of stories which will once again be the focus of new displays when the Shed reopens later this year,” she said.

The Shed was built in 1907 and was used as the storage and ‘staging post’ for the brothers’ fishing activities until their last catch in 1969. It continued as something of a social hub into the 1970s before falling into disrepair. The shed was relocated to its current site within the Museum precinct from further along Terranora inlet in the mid-1990s and restored thanks to the efforts of many locals and the Tweed Heads Historical Society.

“The Shed has been well cared for over the years, but the nature of the building, its location and the elements have had an impact. Some running repairs will be necessary before the building reopens to the public.”

The Tweed Heads Museum Precinct is located at Pioneer Park, Kennedy Drive Tweed Heads. The new opening hours from 5 August coincide with celebrations for Local Government Week 2018 (30 July and 5 August). This year’s them is The Power of the Community.

For more information about opening hours and displays, visit the Tweed Regional Museum website https://museum.tweed.nsw.gov.au, email trm@tweed.nsw.gov.au or phone (02) 6670 2493.