The Redlands Coast Museum has 6 large impressive murals covering its walls, that depict scenes, places and images of the Redlands Coast.
1. Farming the Red Soil
This mural covers the back wall of the Agricultural Pavillion and depicts the work on the farm, farmhouses and sheds, the surrounding bushland, southern Moreton Bay, and Stradbroke Island in the distance. This typifies the type of small crop farming so common in the area and provides a fabulous backdrop the agricultural displays.
2. Woodworking
This mural covers the back wall of the Woodworking alcove of the Museum and shows an impressive wooden logging cart depicting the woodworking and logging history of the Redlands Coast.
3. Printery
This mural covers the back wall of the Printery display of the Museum and brings alive the Museum’s Heildelberg Printer. Painted to depict the inside of a printing press, it captures life of the inside of an old printing room.
4. Grand View Hotel
Nestled within the transport display of the Musuem, this mural depicts the current Grand View Hotel, located in Cleveland, Redland. It was built c. 1852 onwards. and was also known as Brighton Hotel and Cleveland House. It contains surviving evidence of one of the earliest buildings in Cleveland. The Grand View Hotel demonstrates a rare aspect of Queensland’s history, as one of the oldest extant hotels in Queensland in continuous use. Surrounded by the horses and carts of history, this mural brings our transport hall alive.
5. Manders Bros Garage
This replica mural of one of Redland’s oldest garages, Mander Bros Garage, houses our display of olden day cars and showcases the early mechanics and industry trade on the Redlands Coast
6. Working the Bay
Our newest mural, painted across the expansive back wall of the Musuem, showcases life on the Bay, from the picking and sorting of fruit, loading of the pier and fruit boats, delivery across the seas and the islands, Quandamooka fishing, European Settlement of the area as well as the iconic Cleveland Point Lighthouse. This mural showcases Working on the Bay on the Redlands Coast across history.
