Music museum due to open
A Dimboola museum celebrating the history of Wimmera bands and musicians will open on Saturday as part of festival celebrations.
Dimboola music museum will open from 3pm with jazz band Key Change before an official opening.
The museum opening coincides with the launch of a book based on the history of Dimboola Brass Band — a history stretching from the 1800s to 2005.
Museum spokesman and long-time Dimboola musician Ian Lehmann, who has worked on the book, said the museum opening and book launch was at the start of Dimboola’s inaugural Wimmera Steampunk Festival.
Mr Lehmann said the best time for people to look through the museum on Saturday was from 3pm to 5pm.
“The museum will shut late in the afternoon to allow for the brass band to play between 5pm and 6pm at the festival,” he said.
Mr Lehmann, who plays trombone and trumpet, is part of the Nhill-dimboola Brass Band and had originally planned to open the museum and launch the book last year before the COVID-19 pandemic changed plans.
“I’m really proud of the book. Dad started it all and I carried it on,” he said
The museum documents the history of brass bands in the Wimmera including uniforms, records, instruments and memorabilia, as well as a display of pedal organs.