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The Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum is a not-for-profit military education museum which collects, preserves and displays memorabilia of the Australian Light Horse. 

The museum is run by a group of ex-servicemen and dedicated volunteers passionate about keeping the ANZAC spirit alive.  The museum is sited within the Schmidt Farmhouse and Outbuildings (former), which is a recognised Queensland Heritage Place of significance to the people of Queensland. 

The Schmidt Farmhouse and Outbuildings are culturally significant to the Gold Coast as they demonstrate the pattern of Queensland’s history by providing important evidence of the farming history of the Gold Coast in the mid to late nineteenth century. As very few farmhouses from that period survive in the Gold Coast hinterland region, the former Schmidt farmhouse demonstrates rare aspects of Queensland’s cultural heritage.

The farmhouse, barn, creamery and other surviving outbuildings demonstrate the range of buildings and facilities required at a late nineteenth century farm in south-east Queensland, and demonstrate these principal characteristics. They have a special association with the members of the Schmidt family, who owned and lived there for most of the twentieth century. In general, the farmhouse, the barn, and the creamery are considered to have a high level of cultural heritage significance, the other early outbuildings to have some significance, and the more recent structures and changes to the significant buildings, to have little significance.

The farmhouse and outbuildings were constructed in the late 1880s–1910 and survives as a rare illustration of the form, construction and materials employed in a small, timber rural dwelling in the Gold Coast hinterland and historically important in demonstrating the farming history of the Gold Coast hinterland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.