Ararat Rural City of Orchids
Information Centre adjacent to Train Station
Attractions :
J-Ward for the criminally insane
Regional Art Gallery
Ararat Railway Museum
Orchid display in Glasshouse
Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre
Langi Morgala Museum
Escape to Ararat with V/Line
Ararat offers a wealth of historical sites and buildings that tell many fascinating stories of the area's gold rush and immigration heritage.
For a fascinating insight into the lives of the Chinese settlers during this bustling era, visit the Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre.
Other places of historical interest include the Langi Morgala Museum, where you can learn more about Ararat's pre-colonial Aboriginal history through to the lives of early settlers, and J Ward -- a chilling bluestone jail that was home to Victoria's criminally insane from 1859 to 1991.