Grain Discovery Centre

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From planting to plate: discover how grain helped communities grow.

The Grain Discovery Centre is located inside the Narembeen Roadhouse and gives a history of farming and grain growing in the district. There is a fascinating shop display, which shows some of the many items in our supermarket that contain grain and grain products.

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Address:

Lot 1, Currall Street
Narembeen WA 6369
Australia

Tel:

0447 919 933

Email:

crcmanager@narembeen.wa.gov.au

Opening Hours

7 days 9am - 5pm. Entry by gold coin donation

Cookbook and scrapbooks

The humble cookbook

Recipes were handed down through generations of a family, often as a scrapbook. These scrapbooks contained recipes and helpful tips for looking after the family, such as this one, which has dress...

Grains

Grain crops grown in the district.

There are several types of grains grown in the Narembeen district. The Centre provides information about types of grains, the farming calendar, scientific advancements in farming grains and examples...

Sewing machine and basket

The hub of the farm.

The kitchen was the hub of the farm. It is where meals were prepared and made, homework was done, and even clothes were made. This sewing basket and machine was donated by local woman Margaret Butler.

Narrogin Old Courthouse Museum

Judiciary, dolls, pottery and many things in between.

Visit Narrogin’s original courthouse, and stand behind the judge’s bench, witness stand and prisoner’s dock. Read up on local history from the collection of books and booklets, located on the judge’s...

Balladonia Heritage Museum

A museum located near the ‘Ninety mile straight’.

Located in a roadhouse, this little museum has items and information about Ngadju and Mirning people. It also covers the early settler history at Balladonia station, Skylab, an around Australia car...

Old Police Complex

A country police station

The first Laverton police station is described by the guide as ‘tents, tin and fibro,’ with the prisoners brutally chained to logs. In 1899 the original jail was moved from the close-by settlement of...

Minnivale Rail and Heritage Centre

A collection of rail carriages in a disused wheatbin

Have you ever wondered what was inside the large silver wheat bins which litter the Wheatbelt landscape? Wonder no more! Step inside a decommissioned wheatbin which houses a collection of rail...