Cared for by volunteers from the Whyalla branch, National Trust of SA, the museum consists of a complex of buildings centred around a 1922 sheep station homestead telling the story of the early days of Whyalla.
Other buildings include an original BHP workman’s cottage of 1914, the Nicolson and Lions engine sheds, the Whyalla gaol, the Blacksmith shop, the Brian Barber Harness Shed and the Telecommunications Museum with a range of historic items from the overland telegraph era to modern satellite communications. There is also a steam train and ore truck which was in service until 1962 bringing ore from the Iron Knob Mines on the company tram line.