Port Douglas Court House Museum

Port Douglas Court House Museum is a heritage-listed former courthouse and now museum.

It was formerly known as Port Douglas Court House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.. The Port Douglas Court House was constructed in 1879 as the first court house in the town. It is a simple timber structure with verandahs to all four elevations.. The Port Douglas Court House is one of the earliest surviving timber constructed court houses in Queensland. When Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859, there were only six court houses in the new colony. During the next forty years, over 145 court houses were erected in Queensland, ranging from slab structures to the substantial Supreme Court building in Brisbane (destroyed by arson in 1968).