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The Langi Morgala Museum holds large and varied social history collections in trust for the town of Ararat and district.
The large eclectic collection covers a wide variety of themes of local importance, and includes objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of the individual collections are comprehensive and have been gathered with intent to demonstrate the history of a movement or an organisation over time. Others are less complete, and some items are without provenance. The museum includes some collections and individual items of a wider than local significance.
The museum artifact, photographic and document collection is made up largely of donations by individuals within the Ararat district. The museum collection is mainly displayed under glass in cabinets with larger items on open display. Some domestic items are on open display in four themed "rooms".
Large pieces of machinery are displayed outside, along with the refurbished blacksmiths shop. The collection is strong in aspects of the nineteenth and early twentieth century history of the town and district. Some more contemporary items, such as those relating to local World Champion & Olympic Cyclist Shane Kelly OAM and other local community organisations are also in the collection.
The museum also houses the largest collection of Aboriginal artifacts in Victoria, (the Mooney & Best collections), and items provenanced to the Ararat goldfields as well as objects from the large squatters estates in the district, items relating to farming, commerce, war, social, domestic and community life. The surviving collection of an earlier Ararat Borough Museum set up around 1900 also form part of the collection.
A rare 1603 James I silver shilling is also exhibited in the Museums coin collection
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