Inside a number of buildings you find exhibition space that ranges from old schoolrooms to famed displays including the Women in Australia’s Working History project. This is an inspiring look at the experiences of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work and how they helped build the foundations on which the present nation now stands. The Australian Workers Heritage Centre is a tribute to the contribution made by the country’s working men and women, and shows how ordinary people accomplished extraordinary things and in doing so built a nation.

The centre is sited in the old Barcaldine State School grounds and has some of the school’s original structures as well as buildings that have been relocated to the grounds, including workplaces of yesteryear like a police watch-house, railway station and a one-teacher school.

A gift shop offers souvenirs, gifts, clothing, cards and books. The Australian Workers Heritage Centre is open seven days a week (closed Christmas Day).