The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.
The Western Australian Museum has seven main sites: two in Perth within the Perth Cultural Centre, two in Fremantle (Maritime and Shipwreck Galleries), and one each in Albany, Geraldton, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder. The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969.
Established in 1891 in the ol...
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The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.
The Western Australian Museum has seven main sites: two in Perth within the Perth Cultural Centre, two in Fremantle (Maritime and Shipwreck Galleries), and one each in Albany, Geraldton, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder. The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969.
Established in 1891 in the old Perth goal, it was known as the Geological Museum and consisted of geological collections. In 1892 ethnological and biological were added, and in 1897 the museum officially became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery.
During 1959 the botanical collection was transferred to the new Herbarium and the Museum and the Art Gallery became separate institutions. The museum focussed its collecting and research interests in the areas of natural sciences, anthropology, archaeology and in Western Australia's history. Over the 1960s and 1970s it...
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