The Colonial Cottage Museum is a heritage-listed former cottage and now museum at Bow Street, Merriwa, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Merriwa Cottage and Cottage Museum. The property is owned by the Upper Hunter Shire Council and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

The cottage was built between 1847 and 1856 as a private residence. The cottage was made from local sandstone quarried that was pushed down on timber slabs. The cottage served as a series of banking businesses until the 1950s when it became a private residence. The original building consisted of four rooms, a cellar area and a separate kitchen at the rear of the building, since removed.

The Colonial Cottage Museum was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

• List of museums in New South Wales

• "Cottage Museum". 2007.
• Attraction Homepage (2007). "Cottage Museum". Archived from the original on 13 September 2006. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

This Wikipedia article was originally based on Cottage Museum, entry number 00259 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 1 June 2018.