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Cheese museum · Bega, NSW

Bega Cheese Heritage Centre

The Bega Cheese Heritage Centre, at 11 to 13 Lagoon Street in Bega, is a free museum about dairying in the Bega Valley, in a copy of the original 1899 creamery. You can taste and buy Bega cheese, and there is a café and the town's visitor information centre. It is open seven days.

Price
Free
Open
7 days
Café
From 9am
The Bega Cheese Heritage Centre building
Photo: Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 3.0

What's There

The centre was built in 1993 as a faithful copy of the original creamery of 1899. Upstairs is a relocated slab-timber cheese factory and the Ayrdale collection, along with the Spotted Cow Gallery. Downstairs you can sample and buy Bega and other Australian cheeses. The café serves a cheese platter, a ploughman's lunch, cheese toasties and milkshakes.

Opening hours are 9am to 5pm, with shorter winter weekend hours (9am to 4pm). Call 02 6491 7762 to check.

Cheeses to Taste Here

Cheddar

What it tastes like and how it's made

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Questions People Ask

Is the Bega Cheese Heritage Centre free?

Yes, the museum has free entry and is open seven days a week.

Official site: sapphirecoast.com.au/food-and-drink/bega-cheese-heritage-ce…. Dates, hours and prices checked 22 October 2026; confirm on the official site before you travel. See all cheese museums.