Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society

The Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society is the custodian of the Upper Yarra Museum. The museum is housed in and around the restored Yarra Junction Railway Station and the museum grounds contain multiple original historical buildings.

The purposes of the Historical Society and Museum are:

• To develop and manage a publicly accessible resource of historical artefacts, photographs, documents, and records which are of particular relevance to the Upper Yarra Valley area.
• To encourage community engagement with the Museum through public events and an online presence.
• To encourage further research into the history of the Upper Yarra Valley.
• To develop an appreciation of the historic value of the Museum buildings.

From a significance assessment report of the collection carried out in 2011: The Museum’s collection is historically significant for its representation of the wider story of timber milling in the region and in Victoria, the social and industrial history of the Upper Yarra region, and the evolution of a gold mining settlement into a thriving township, a dormitory suburb of metropolitan Melbourne and a semi-rural area. The collection has research significance to be found within its engineering blueprints and some components of its archival and photographic collection, while the original railway buildings that form the heritage precinct are representative of an important early 20th century railway station.

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