One response to the development of tourism in small inland Queensland towns has been to collect heritage machinery from the surrounding countryside and display it in town as an attraction for visitors. These sites range from open-air collections of miscellaneous items with no explanation of their use to both private and local government museums that are given varying levels of care and interpretation. The small north-western Queensland town of Croydon has a collection of heritage machinery in a number of sites, which range across this continuum. This article explores the potential of the collection to interpret the town’s history and the history of early gold mining, as a case study with application to other such collections.

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克罗伊登的历史机械收藏：内陆遗产机械收藏用途和需求的案例研究

对昆士兰内陆小城镇旅游业发展的一种反应是收集周围乡村的遗产机械并将其展示在城镇中作为吸引游客的景点。这些网站的范围从没有解释其用途的各种物品的露天收藏品到私人和当地政府博物馆，它们给予不同程度的照顾和解释。昆士兰州西北部的小镇克罗伊登 (Croydon) 的许多遗址都收藏了一系列遗产机械，这些遗址遍布整个连续体。本文探讨了该收藏品在解释该镇历史和早期金矿开采历史方面的潜力，并将其作为一个案例研究，并应用于其他此类收藏品。