Description
Pilot’s Cottage Museum
Visit Kiama’s award-winning museum
Open Saturday and Sunday, 11.00am to 3.00pm
Entry $4 adults, $3 concessions. Children FREE
Blowhole Point, close to Kiama Visitors Centre
Living history
Built in 1880-1881 by the local builders Watkin and Ettingshausen, the four front rooms were first occupied by Thomas Tulloch, his wife and five daughters.
A series of officers in charge of the harbour, who controlled Kiama's contact with the outside world, used the cottage as their home and office for almost a century.
They were in charge of all aspects of controlling the harbour - mooring, navigation lights, fees, shipping reports, weather reports - even the lighthouse!
In 1978, the last pilot, A. W. (Joe) Triffitt retired and the cottage became empty and derelict. Coming to the rescue, Kiama & District Historical Society took over the cottage as their headquarters in 1983.
With generous support and with the tireless efforts of Historical Society members, the Cottage is open as a centre for the people of Kiama to be proud of.
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