The Phillip Island Historical Museum has displays documenting the island’s history from it’s volcanic origins billions of years ago to the 20th century.
About 6,000 years ago Phillip Island pretty much became as we know it today.
The museum leads visitors to understand how the Bunurong people visited, depending on the seasons, and utilised what the island had to offer.
The arrival of Europeans and their pioneering lives are depicted through artefacts and information boards.
Important events in the island’s history, such as the wrecking of the SS Speke, one of many shipwrecks around the island, and the building of the first bridge, are included.