Mooramong Collection

The Mooramong Collection forms part of one of Victoria’s most significant pastoral estates, encompassing a grand homestead, extensive gardens, farm buildings and a vast array of objects. Remarkably intact, the collection documents life on a large rural property from the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries, offering rare insight into domestic, agricultural and social histories.
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Mooramong is a 1560-hectare farm and homestead complex comprising a grand residence, vast collection of objects, surrounding gardens, landscaped park, nature reserve and working farm with several outbuildings and workers’ residences. Mooramong is listed on the Victoria Heritage Register as having historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria, for its capacity to demonstrate life on a large pastoral estate from the 1870s top the 1970s, and for being a fine example of a homestead complex and house museum.

Mooramong is historically significant for its association with high profile owners Claire Adams Mackinnon and Donald Scobie Mackinnon. The Mackinnons bequeathed the property and its collection to the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) in the 1970s. The collection includes the Mackinnon’s personal and household effects, art, photographs, memorabilia, furniture, farm equipment, and sheet music. The intactness and completeness of the collection enhances the significance of the place, making it an outstanding example of historical pastoral property and one of Victoria’s largest and most interesting house museums.

Source: Victorian Heritage Database
Place ID 2071
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