Laidley Pioneer Village and Museum

The Laidley Pioneer Village and Museum is an historic open-air museum located in the town of Laidley, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia, on the corner of Drayton Street and Pioneer Street.

It portraits rural life in Queensland from the early 19th century. History. The Laidley region was once the home of the "Kitabul People" before the arrival of Europeans in the early 19th century. Today, the Ugarapul People are the traditional owners of the Lockyer Valley region. The Laidley Pioneer Village was the first museum of the heritage village type in Queensland when it was established in 1972. It is located on the site of a former resting paddock used for the horses of the Cobb & Co coaching business along the original transport route from Ipswich to Toowoomba.