Museum of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

The South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation has converted Fanny Cochrane Smith's church into The Living History Museum of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage. On display in the former Methodist church are artefacts and stories from the Aboriginal people of southeast Tasmania. The Museum runs an Aboriginal artists-in-residence program, a wetlands area with interpretation of the significant flora - offered by Aboriginal people. The Museum was opened in December 2003.

Fanny Cochrane Smith was born at Wybalenna (the Flinders Island Aboriginal settlement set up by Rev. George Augustus Robinson) in 1834. She was the daughter of Tanganutura, which means "to weep bitterly."

Tanganutura had been abducted by the sealer James Parish. At Wybalenna, Tanganutura took Nicermenic as her husband. When she was five years old Fanny was taken from her parents to live with the prison catechist, Robert Clark, and later she was sent to the Queens Orphan School, in Hobart, to be trained as a domestic servant. She was returned to Wybalenna to work for Clark