Cobar Area Attractions

Cobar Regional Museum

Cobar - Take a trip back in time, a voyage that will take you to the very beginning
of Aboriginal history in Australia, through to the European settlement of
Australia.

Exhibitions include: Aboriginal culture and bush tucker, bush skills and
ingenuity in making do, washing, homemade soap, growing up in Cobar, domestic
life and leisure activities at home, the bush kitchen and the skills of so
many anonymous women in coping with the distance from shops and the problems
of keeping food fresh in hot summer... read more

Mount Grenfell Historical Site

Cobar - At the Mount Grenfell Historical Site you can find Aboriginal hand stencilling on the cave rocks. They did this by blowing or spraying mouthfuls of pigment around their hands. One of these depicts a hand with the top joints and the middle finger missing. Whether the author`s finger was mutilated or folded under is an historic puzzle. Other art forms depict small animated stick figures engaged in dancing, hunting or ceremonial pursuits.

The age and significance of much of this art site is diffic... read more

Pastoral Mining And Technological Museum

Cobar - The museum overlooks the original open cut mine, sold to the shire council for
$1.00 to restore and turn into a museum.

Exhibits on display are: aboriginal, botanical, entomology, geology,
historical, mining, pastoral, technological and wool.