New Italy Museum

New Italy Museum showcasing the story of a group of Italian emigrants, located in Woodburn NSW Open 7 days per week coach tours and group bookings are welcome.

New Italy had its beginnings in 1880, when families of farmers from the region of Veneto in Northern Italy, were beguiled by the Marquis de Rays to purchase homes and fertile land in a phantom paradise of the Pacific named La Nouvelle France (an imaginary kingdom in the Bismarck Archipelago).

On the 14th August 2002, The NSW Government added The New Italy Settlement Site & The New Italy School Site to the State Heritage Register, for their cultural significance to the people of NSW.

The New Italy Museum was developed as a tribute to the courage and strength of those pioneering families with the purpose to pass on to future generations their spiritual legacy.