Childers Pharmaceutical Museum, Pharmaceutical museum in Childers, Queensland

The Childers Pharmaceutical Museum occupies a two-storey brick building at 88–90 Churchill Street, designed by Bundaberg architect F H Faircloth and built in 1902 as a single-storey shop, with an upper floor added in 1911. Its facade has a broken semi-circular pediment matching the adjoining former Hood's shop, and the upper floor is lit by a lantern and a pair of large compound windows. Inside, the former Gaydon's Pharmacy retains its original fittings and pharmaceutical contents.

Thomas Gaydon arrived in Childers in 1894 and ran his chemist's shop on Churchill Street; the timber south side of the street burned on 23 March 1902, and Bundaberg architect F H Faircloth designed the brick replacement shops that year. An upper floor was added in 1911, where Gaydon also ran a dental surgery. After his death in 1935 his sons Geoffrey, a dentist, and Noel, a chemist, practised from the building, which joined the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

The building is also known as Gaydon's Pharmacy and Tourist Information Centre, and the museum keeps the Gaydon name on the former shop. Thomas Gaydon served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, the School of Arts, the hospital and school committees, and was the second chairman of the Isis Shire Council in 1919, holding the post again from 1924 to 1930.

The museum occupies the two-storey former pharmacy at 88–90 Churchill Street, in the row of shops on the south side of Childers' main street. The ground floor holds the shopfront and dispensary displays, with the upper floor added in 1911 reached by the original stair. The building is a heritage-listed structure, so expect uneven older floors and tight spaces between the fittings.

Thomas Gaydon did more than dispense medicines: he also practised as a dentist, photographer and anaesthetist to the local hospital, and served as the second chairman of the Isis Shire Council in 1919, holding the post again from 1924 to 1930. The upper floor added in 1911, lit by a lantern and a pair of large compound windows, gave him the light for his dental surgery.