[2] The museum contains a diverse collection of objects, tools, machinery, photographs, and ephemera relating to Carnamah’s social, domestic, commercial, and agricultural past.
[18][19] The stone homestead was built in the late 1860s and following deterioration was restored with locally raised funds and grants from Lotterywest.
The Heritage Council of Western Australia noted that "early settlers played an important and successful role in the development and growth of the Carnamah district" and that "the place has a particular structural interest, with its high walls and steeply pitched roof and bush rafters".
[3] Online content includes an extensive biographical dictionary, virtual museum, historical photographs, cemetery records, local histories and Australian Curriculum resources.
[3][23] As a result of exposure on social media the society and its activities were profiled in a two-page spread in the Nov-Dec 2011 issue of Inside History magazine and in the spring 2011 edition of Musing, the publication of Museums Australia WA.
[24] Blog posts cover a broad range of topics including museum happenings, website additions, historical pieces and featured photographs.
[27] The society, in collaboration with the North Midlands Project, produces the online Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs.
[37][38] The MAGNA judges summarised the work as an innovative solution that was "very creative with excellent production values and interpretative images and narratives".
[39] The following year, in 2015, the accompanying education resources received a Highly Commended in the Level 1 Interpretation, Learning and Audience Engagement category of the same awards.
[43] The funding, over a two-year period, covered research, development, trials, refinement and the sharing of structure and outcomes with other community sector organisations.
[45] In 2013 the society was a partner with Rail Heritage WA in gathering and providing content for the book Memories of the Midland Railway Co. of Western Australia.
[4][21] The section, with accompanying objects, includes the stories of five soldier settlers and their families with interpretative detail being largely sourced from the Carnamah-Winchester Database on the society's website.