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The moment the outer gates admit you into the ground you prepare yourself to be surprised at nothing. You are entering an inverted world, a world of caprice, a world without law, and a world which, if left to itself, would soon be a worse pandemonium than Dante ever imagined." Ovens and Murray Advertiser. 6th June, 1903 Herein lies a madness of buildings, a collective noun that can only ever apply to somewhere like mayday hills. Come, join us ...

Palace of Broken Dreams"A lunatic asylum, like a prison, is one of those estimable public institutions which we all admire most at a distance, but which very few of us care to become too intimately acquainted with." -Journalist, Ovens & Murray Advertiser 1903Beechworth Asylum has sat gracefully over the historic goldrush town of Beechworth for 150 years. Detailed within is a short, defined history of the asylum and the grounds, complete with p...