Victoria Barracks, Brisbane

Victoria Barracks is an Australian Army base in the Brisbane suburb of Petrie Terrace in Queensland.

Following Queensland's separation from New South Wales in 1859, the new government was faced with a problem: there was no permanent military presence in the new colony.

Although the barracks expanded in subsequent years to include a military hospital and a magazine, the garrison dwindled due largely to the effects of the Maori Wars.

With the build-up in forces preceding and during the First World War, the barracks experienced its second great period of expansion.

[3] In 1983 a committee was formed to create a museum of Queensland Military Heritage, the museum was opened on 6 June 1984 by the Governor of Queensland James Ramsay (governor) and was operated by the Victoria Barracks Historical Society [4] until 1998 when the Society moved out.