Museum Talks

The Museum Talks are a monthly event that has the focus of a specific topic relating to The Borough of Queenscliffe; such as significant events, people and buildings. Over the years there have been some fascinating topics.

The speakers are specialists in their topic and range from authors, teachers, and historians. They are passionate and will inform and entertain. ​If you would like to be a presenter and have a subject that you would like to be explored, please contact us.


When: Fourth Thursday of the month
Where: Uniting Church Hall, cnr Hesse & Stokes Sts Queenscliff
Time: 10am for a 10.30am start
Price: $7 Non-members, $5 Members 
Includes tea and coffee

Talks are postponed until further notice

As the echoes of the last of seven shots reverberated around the rolling Barrabool Hills, three generations of the Wettenhall family had come to a tragic end - Darcy, his 23 year old son Guy and his ‘aunt’ Janet Wettenhall were dead.
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No one could have anticipated the violence of the 1992 murderous spree nor the scandal which emerged in its aftermath.

Darcy was the successor to Rupert Wettenhall, the highly-respected sheepbreeder who created the famous Stanbury corriedale stud. Despite the many personal struggles which he tried so hard to conceal, Darcy had married and had a son, maybe to ensure the future of the Wettenhall name.

Neal Drinnan is the author of “The Devil’s Grip” and drew on his knowledge of Darcy while he was unravelling the complexities of Darcy’s life.
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Neal will speak about his book during the March Monthly Talk of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum and will describe how he used for his title, the term describing a genetic flaw in sheep breeding.