About Batchelor Museum

Batchelor is best known as the gateway to magnificent Litchfield National Park, only 98 kilometres south of Darwin, just off the Stuart Highway, known as the Explorer’s Way. Batchelor is an excellent base to explore Litchfield NP. When Litchfield was declared a national park in 1986, tourism became Batchelor’s primary industry. Three happenings of European history dating back to 1911 each stand out as unique and important to Australia and so understated! Cleared as a civil aerodrome in 1933 on what was part of the former Batchelor Farm Darwin, Batchelor Aerodrome became an important base for Allied Air operations during the war years from late 1941. The traditional owners of the lands surrounding Batchelor are the Kungarakan and the Wa