Our Discovery Centre has three display galleries. They lead you through Victor Harbor’s history. It is a transition from before white settlement to the establishment of Victor Harbor as a tourist town. See how the indigenous people lived. Look at an Encounter that could have been the first sea battle in Australia. It turned out to be a friendly chat over breakfast. See one of our states first industries and exports. Then follow it through to what became Australia’s main export for so many years. Victor Harbor was a major centre for this activity. As trade declined, amazingly it turned into a town where the population swelled by more than double at certain times. Today that still occurs. Schoolies and the Summer Holiday season are examples this.
Display Galleries include:
The Encounter between French and English explorers
The Old Whaling Days
River trade and the establishment as Port Victor
Coming of the trains and turning into a holiday destination.