Tours
School & Group Tours
School group bookings are welcome by appointment.
Our knowledgeable and friendly Museum Volunteers are available to provide a unique and one of a kind guided tour for any year group.
Admission is $3 per students.
To help you plan your trip we have our Provisional Risk Assessment for School Groups available below.
Please note that the School Risk Assessments were made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers will need to review against current COVID restrictions.
Provisional Risk Assessment for School Groups (PDF)
Provisional Risk Assessment for School Groups (Word)
We also have our award winning Tamworth Powerstation Museum Education Kit K-6, that links pre-visit, visit and post-visit activities to syllabus outcomes in Science and History.
The museum is a significant educational resource illustrating the history, social impact, and evolving Museum volunteers are available to give guided tours. The museum is a significant educational resource illustrating the history, social impact, and evolving technology and growth of the electrical industry in Tamworth, in Australia and in the rest of the world.
Click here to download the interactive Tamworth Powerstation Museum Education Kit K-16
For a copy of the Visit Experience brochure please contact the Powerstation Museum.
Group Bookings
Group bookings can be made in advance. To make a group booking, please fill out the online form here.
Let our volunteers show you around
The Museum always gets great feedback about our volunteers. They are passionate about Tamworth’s electrical history and many were even involved in setting up the museum in 1988.
Visitors to the museum enjoy being taken around by our volunteer guides and for those of you who can’t make it to the museum the following videos give you a quick glimpse of just how knowledgable and engaging they are!
Celebrate Tamworth as the first ‘City of Light’ – when this municipality became the first in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric street lighting. Tamworth Powerstation volunteers Naomi Blakey and Ron Greer welcome you to the museum and this significant story.
While the lights went on in 1888 the Tamworth Powerstation Museum opened in 1988. Hear Ron Greer tell the story of this second Council undertaking.
Discover more about the history and science of electricity with Anna Gregory and volunteer Ron Greer.
Electricity in the home changed people’s lives. Find out more with Tamworth Powerstation Museum volunteers Ron Greer, Ken Russell and Naomi Blakey.
Visit the Gallery Room of the Tamworth Powerstation Museum with volunteers Ian Hobbs and Ken Russell.