Sovereign Hill, Ballarat

Sovereign Hill was an amazing outdoor museum experience. It helped me to better understand the history of Australia and how gold played and important part. We were lucky 🍀 with the weather. It was amazing to walk through the big museum, trying to find gold with the kids. The staff members were all dressed in traditional clothing and they were all very welcoming and kind. We very much enjoyed the tour to the big gold nugget. Yet, the kids enjoyed also to see the animals and waking through the old houses 🏡. A fantastic weekend trip from Melbourne, definitely worth it.

Highly recommend this place as it’s a great family day out! Was a lot bigger than I thought and we spent easily the 10am-5pm opening time it was there and we didn’t even cover the whole thing! So much to do, look at and browse. The staff is amazing with their Dress up (awesome actors) and the whole place was bought alive in the gold mine era. Gold panning is so much fun for all ages, we found tiny gold specs and it was a great experience (even as 26y/o big kids!). It can be busy so prepare for the crowd if on weekends or public holiday. Plenty of parking and lots of toilets around.