New South Wales · Attraction
Silverton Historic Township
Ghost town with an outback soul
schedule 1 min read / Updated Jun 2026
Twenty-five kilometres northwest of Broken Hill, the tiny silver-rush settlement of Silverton once held a population of three thousand and its own municipal council. Today fewer than fifty people call it home, yet the corrugated-iron pub, the 1889 gaol-turned-museum, scattered galleries and the sheer theatrical quality of the landscape have made it one of Australia's most-filmed locations, appearing in films including Mad Max 2 and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
The historic Silverton Hotel anchors the town and serves cold drinks and pub meals in a setting unchanged in its essentials since the 1880s. Walls inside are papered with film stills and memorabilia, and the beer garden looks out over a quintessentially outback street of faded colonial facades and red dirt. The adjacent Mad Max Museum displays vehicles, costumes and props from the franchise.
The Silverton Gaol Museum occupies the original 1889 lockup and holds an eclectic collection of thousands of artefacts documenting pastoral and mining life in the region. Several resident artists maintain galleries and studios in the village, and a Heritage Walking Trail links all the key sites in a circuit of about two hours.
Nine kilometres west of town, the Daydream Mine offers underground tours of a nineteenth-century silver mine. The drive to the Mundi Mundi Lookout, five kilometres beyond Silverton, makes a natural extension of any half-day visit.
Scenic views
Lookouts near Silverton Historic Township.
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