{{Short description|Museum in Queenstown, Tasmania}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2014}} {{Infobox museum | name = The Eric Thomas Galley Museum | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Galley_Museum_in_2008.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = | alt = | map_type = | map_relief = | pushpin_mapsize = | map_caption = | pushpin_label =
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One of two [[West Coast, Tasmania|west coast]] Tasmania museums that house records and relics from the mining communities of the past, the museum is housed in a former 1897 constructed the Imperial Hotel,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84656450 |title=The Imperial Hotel, Queenstown. |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=VIII |issue=58 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=20 December 1897 |access-date=12 May 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> which has also been a mining office and Youth Hostel.<ref>The other Museum is the West Coast Pioneers Museum complex (now known as the West Coast Heritage Centre in [[Zeehan]]</ref><ref>page 182 of {{Citation | author1=Atkinson, Sue, (Museum consultant), (compiler.) | title=Tasmania : island of treasures | date=2012 | publisher=40 Degrees South | isbn=978-0-9874468-1-7 }}</ref>
As a repository of the historical photographs and materials from the history of Queenstown it contains collections that hold in some cases the last vestiges of the former mines and localities on the west coast.<ref>[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20090610063000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/100781/20090610-1630/hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/foundmade/instquery48f548f5.html ] {{cbignore|bot=medic}}Eric Thomas Galley Museum details in archived website</ref>
The collection of photographs and text and materials relating to the [[1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster|1912 North Mount Lyell Mining disaster]] is extensive.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Eric Thomas Galley Museum (Queenstown, Tas) | title=The North Lyell Mining Disaster | date=2005 | publisher=Eric Thomas Galley Museum | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20616552 | access-date=3 March 2012 }}</ref>
Considerable parts of the photograph collection were photographs collected by and also processed by Eric Thomas.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://tasmanianhistorygroups.edublogs.org/eric-thomas-gallery-museum/ |title = Eric Thomas Galley Museum | Tasmanian History Groups}}</ref>
An object from the museum was utilised in a 10 objects 10 stories exhibition in Hobart in 2016.<ref>{{Citation | title=Australia : 10 objects- 10 stories exhibition opens in Hobart | journal=Mena Report | date=2016-04-29 | publisher=SyndiGate Media Inc | issn=2219-0112 }}</ref>
==See also== * [[West Coast Heritage Centre]]
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130404003053/http://www.queenstowntasmania.com/Galley_Museum_Page.php Information]
[[Category:Museums in Tasmania]] [[Category:Western Tasmania]] [[Category:Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company]] [[Category:Photography museums and galleries in Australia]] [[Category:Mining museums in Australia]]