Embark on a journey through time with the grand kids – Museum Mystery Madness is back, offering a great family day out while cracking codes and solve clues at eight local museums across the region.
Throughout September, simply visit a participating museum and complete the quiz for a chance to win one of five $50 school or office vouchers. Plus, there’s a Lucky Dip prize during the school holidays.
Each museum has its own intriguing collection and its own individual mystery quiz. You can take part in one or visit them all.
To win, simply pop the completed quiz into the box at the museum. Entries close 30 September. Winners will be contacted directly on 4 October using the details provided and announced via Council’s heritage e-newsletter.
Become a Museum VIP
For a small entry fee or entry donation to the participating museums participants instantly become a Museum VIP. Museum VIPs get entry discounts to other participating museums.
Sunshine Coast Council Community Portfolio Councillor Taylor Bunnag said the fun program offered a unique opportunity to delve into the past, understand our present and be inspired for the future.
“Museum Mystery Madness is a great opportunity to share stories and forgotten memories with children and grandchildren,” Cr Bunnag said.
“Having visual prompts helps children be curious and understand what life might have been like for their own parents and grandparents.
“They’ll likely be blown away by the older technology and the everyday things like electricity that we now take for granted.
“Our region’s museums also make for an exceptional low-cost day out during the school holidays and the quiz adds another way to explore all our yesterdays in a fun, meaningful and even more rewarding way.”
Participate at these Sunshine Coast Museums
Bankfoot House Heritage Precinct
Help us find mystery golden nuggets left behind by travellers to the Gympie goldfields.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 3pm, entry Free.
Buderim Pioneer Cottage
Find mystery objects in the house using clues.
Open Monday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm, entry adults $5, children $1
Eumundi Museum
Looks can be deceiving. Find the images that are just a part of the whole picture.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 3pm, entry free.
Kenilworth Museum
Find the Scrabble board clues hidden in the museum.
Open Sundays, 10am to 2pm, entry adults $4, children $1
Landsborough Museum
Be a cunning detective and crack the code in the mystery quiz and stop the robbers.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 3pm, entry free.
Nambour Museum
It’s not your ordinary museum and not an ordinary quiz – time to be challenged!
Open Wednesday to Friday, 1-4pm, Saturdays and fourth Sunday of the month, 10am to 3pm, entry adults $5, children (5yrs +) $1
Peachester Heritage Centre
Use the clues to search the museum and find the right tools for the right job.
Open each Monday in September and fourth Sunday of the month, 10am to 2pm, entry $5, children free
Queensland Air Museum
Find ‘Snoopy the Red Baron’ and become an honorary ‘Ace Biggles’!
Open daily, 10am to 4pm, entry from $12.50
Discovery Guide
To explore further, download the Sunshine Coast Discovery Guide – the ultimate guide to the region’s incredible cultural heritage.
To find out about Sunshine Coast heritage sites, download the Discovery Guide or collect a copy from Sunshine Coast Council Libraries or Customer Contact Centres.
For more information
Visit heritage.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/
Stay in touch with Sunshine Coast heritage events by subscribing to the Heritage eNewsletter.
This program is an initiative of the Sunshine Coast Council Arts and Heritage Levy.
The Levy, which is charged to every rateable property, is used to document, research, conserve, protect, promote and provide access to those tangible and intangible items, places, facilities and events that define the stories, history and values of the people, communities and culture of the Sunshine Coast.
