The local post office is a solid structure with gabled roof, rounded windows and, on both sides, projecting wings and attractive verandahs supported by classical-style columns. Founded in 1864, it is probably Gippsland's first and certainly one of Victoria's oldest mail centres. The Maritime Museum, in Wharf Street, was once the Bank of Victoria. Built in 1862, it received gold from the fields to the north. It now houses memorabilia of the port's nautical past, including a cannon from the wreck of the Clonmel.
Notes concerning an automobile tour of the district are also available.
The museum is open 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. on Sundays and public holidays. Derwent Hotel Diagonally opposite the museum, on the corner of Wharf and Victoria Streets, is the old Derwent Hotel, with its painted brick exterior, timber verandah, and steep corrugated-iron hip roof. South Street A monument to Angus McMillan stands in the roundabout at the South Street entrance to Port Albert. At one time, this street constituted the dividing line between the port and the government township of Palmerston, established alongside. Although somewhat altered, it is considered a significant instance of the vernacular architectural style utilised in the public buildings of the early colonial period.