Engineering Heritage Australia
Welcome to Engineering Heritage Australia wiki website, a repository of knowledge about the history of engineering in Australia. Learn about the engineers who helped create the Australia we know today, and many of their well-known and less well-known achievements. Find interesting places to visit where you can see how engineering has shaped our country.
ENGINEERING HERITAGE SITES IN AUSTRALIA
This map shows sites of engineering heritage interest around Australia. You can enlarge the map to show more detail around any area of interest to you. Tap or click on any pin to learn more. If you know of a site that is not yet shown here, you can tell us about it here.
MAP KEY:
Yellow pins: sites of international engineering heritage significance
Red pins: sites of national engineering heritage significance
Blue pins: sites of engineering heritage significance
Brown pins: sites of engineering interest.
ENGINEERING HERITAGE REGISTER
A list of items of engineering significance that have been recognised with a marker since the commencement of the Engineering Heritage Recognition Program in 1984 is available here.
A list of places with special engineering interest, identified by Engineering Heritage Branches is available here.
A sitemap page provides a full list of the content on this website.
DATES FOR ENGINEERING HERITAGE EVENTS
1 July 2025 - Engineering Heritage Australia Achievement Award - John Monash Medal
Nominations are open to Tuesday 1 July. The criteria and submission guidelines are included on page 16 of the People Awards Entry Handbook
22 July 2025 - Locomotive workshop, South Eveleigh - integrating structural engineering into a heritage building
6:00 - 7:30 pm AEST. In-person and Online, speakers Elvin Candra and Viktor Siskoski, Arcadis.
24 - 25 July 2025 - 'Contexts for Heritage Engineering' course in Adelaide
Reserve the date, flyer available here. More information at the Heritage Engineering Courses webpage.
30 July 2025 - Preserving Rottnest’s Military History
6:00 - 7:30 pm AWST. In person only, City of Perth Library, speaker Rowan Stokes, Heritage Skills Association.
14 - 17 October 2025 - Big Stuff Conference in Belgium and Perth
Hosted by Big Stuff Heritage community dedicated to preserving and showcasing technological and industrial heritage. A face-to-face and online Asia-Pacific hub will also be hosted in Perth on the same dates, making it easier for southern hemisphere heritage machinery fans to meet each other, get involved and reduce travel costs and carbon impact.
Options, pricing and registration now available at www.bigstuff2025.info/registration
Victorian Goldfields Ballarat. Call for Sponsors now open.
Late November/early December 2025 - 'Heritage Engineering Materials' course in Perth
Reserve the date, flyer available soon. More information at the Heritage Engineering Courses webpage. Refer the course held in Sydney in July 2024.
