ZIEBELL'S FARMHOUSE

Museum & garden open

Our museum and heritage garden is open every Tuesday and Sunday.
Our horticulturalist led garden tours happen the first Wednesday of each month.
COVID-19 conditions of entry apply. Click the link below for opening hours & further information.

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Westgarthtown

Westgarthtown is an historic dairy farming settlement sixteen kilometres north of Melbourne established in 1850 by German and Wendish immigrants. Although now located within the residential suburbs of Thomastown and Lalor in the City of Whittlesea, many of Westgarthtown's outstanding bluestone heritage buildings and structures still survive. These include Ziebell's Farmhouse (c.1850-51), Victoria's oldest German immigrant building; a picturesque Lutheran Cemetery (1850); and Australia's oldest operating Lutheran Church (1856).

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NOW SHOWING

Our new exhibition tells the story of the central garden and
the memories of descendants who have tended
and developed the gardens since the 1850’s.

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Our garden featured in The Age

Megan Backhouse tells the story of the Ziebell's Farmhouse and its restoration.

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Ziebell’s Farmhouse has recently become the first and only Accredited museum
in the City of Whittlesea by successfully completing Museums
Australia (Victoria)'s Museum Accreditation Program (MAP)

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Our moving documentary tells the story of
Westgarthtown descendants during World War 1.

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Read the full story of Westgarthtown during WW1 >