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Council has museums, galleries, gardens, beaches, pools and libraries, all worth exploring. Just make sure you check operating hours for Council services over Easter and Anzac Day public holidays before visiting.

Get ready for a day of fun and cultural discovery at Bankfoot House in the Glass House Mountains!

If you’ve ever wanted to step back in time and explore the Sunshine Coast from the 1950s to 1980s, this is your chance.

If your kids are moaning about going back to school, perhaps show them what life was like back in the day.

Want to keep the kids or grandkids entertained during the holidays? Check out this boredom-busting guide packed with things to do.

Find out how your Arts and Heritage Levy helped preserve, develop and support our region's arts and cultural heritage.

The Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar is available to buy and it's chock full of your sporting memories.

Embark on a journey through time and solve clues for a chance to win a prize

Many of us drive past the cemeteries that dot the Sunshine Coast without giving them much thought, but tucked away in those shady enclaves lie countless fascinating stories.

If you have a photo of local sport (we're talking everything from backyard cricket to the school sack race), and it's dated before the year 2000, send it in for a chance to win.

Council is hoping the community have items, stories and photos that will help build our regional water sporting knowledge.

Stonemasons and cemeteries are a focus of Sunshine Coast Council’s Historian-in-Residence program.

The latest limited edition Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar is available now from Council libraries and customer contact centres.

From tiny caravans to knitted bathing suits, the latest limited edition Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar features holidays of the past from private family collections and Picture Sunshine Coast. The calendar is available from Council libraries and customer contact centres.

Horizon Festival 2023 opened this weekend to an explosion of drums, dance, glitter and gasps. The 10-day multi-arts festival is in full swing, bringing art, music, comedy and more across the Sunshine Coast.

Two experts tasked with unearthing missing chapters in Sunshine Coast history are ready to reveal their findings

These school holidays, celebrate First Nations culture with the whole family.

At Landsborough Museum, you’ll find a watch chain made entirely from plaited human hair and an inkwell made from the dismembered foot of a favourite pony.

From farms to the front line, some epic missing chapters in Sunshine Coast history are about to be uncovered.

The 129-year-old S.S. Dicky wreck has been immortalised and now on display in an interpretive installation for our community to enjoy.

In the words of Oleta Adams, ‘I don’t care how you get here, just get here if you can’ could have been written for the 2023 Sunshine Coast Heritage Calendar.