Sovereign Hill is one of Victoria’s premier regional tourist attractions driven by a mission to explore, explain and entertain its visitors entering the 1850s goldfields site. When visiting you will see, hear and feel what it was like to be in the streets, in the mines, on the diggings, browsing shops, factories and schools to soak in the atmosphere of when the discovery of one precious metal changed the world.

Since its beginning in 1970, Sovereign Hill has given people from across Australia and from around the globe a reason to visit Ballarat. Sovereign Hill has outlasted the original gold rush to create a dynamic and growing series of experiences.

Their bold new adventures are the Australian Centre for Rare Arts & Forgotten Trades, a national home dedicated to preserving and protecting skills of the past for new generations, and the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections which showcases the archives of more than 150,000 pieces of which bring history into a modern focus.

It is one place, filled with many stories.