Description

Established in 1891 in the Old Perth Gaol, the WA Museum was known as the Geological Museum and its collections were geological, ethnological and biological. In 1897 it 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 focused its collecting and research interests in the areas of natural sciences, anthropology, archaeology and the State’s history. Over the 1960s and 1970s it also began to work in the emerging areas of historic shipwrecks and Aboriginal site management. Today the Western Australian Museum comprises six public sites and a Collections and Research Centre and houses more than 4.5 million objects from rare fossils to the iconic racing yacht Australia II. You can visit us at the WA Museum - Albany, WA Museum - Kalgoorlie-Boulder, WA Museum - Geraldton, WA Museum - Shipwreck Galleries or WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle. The WA Museum - Perth is temporarily closed while the #newmuseumforwa is developed on that site. The Museum also manages 200 shipwreck sites of the 1500 known to be located off the WA coast and manages eight Aboriginal land reserves.

The Western Australian Museum is the State’s premier cultural organisation, housing WA’s scientific and cultural collection. Follow the WA Museum on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wamuseum and Instagram: www.instagram.com/wamuseum

Formerly a cyber-museum. An exhibition space, micro-cinema & cultural hub chronicling the social, cultural, political & architectural history of Perth. ABN: 20171348530

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