If you’re planning a luxury holiday to the state of Queensland in Australia, there will a new attraction to tempt you next year.  It is a museum dedicated solely to goats.

According to ABC News, they think this museum will be the first in the world.  It will even include a goat-racing Hall of Fame.  The town in the outback, Barcaldine, has set up a committee to lobby for government funding and to request sponsorship so that the museum can be opened in 2009.

Committee spokesman, John de Groot, said:

“I’m almost certain as well that there’s no goat racing hall of fame anywhere out there in the universe except for what’s proposed at Barcaldine.  It’s an acknowledgement of a wonderful animal that’s just been so important to so many people for such a long time.”

Barcaldine also hosts a Tree of Knowledge festival and last year they hosted a goat-race meeting to celebrate the animal.  The race organisers want to make the town the ‘goat-racing capital of Australia.’