Overview

  • Features: Historical museum featuring Western Australian-based exhibitions
  • Opening Times:  9:30am to 5pm, daily
  • Best Time to Visit: Anytime
  • Duration: 1 to 2 hours
  • Transport Options: Bus, train, car
  • Cost: Free
  • Address: Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia
  • Type: Museum

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What We Liked

Exhibition on Aboriginal culture.

What We Disliked

Old Perth Gaol is a bit depressing.

Summary

If you like visiting museums, especially historical museums, you should visit the Western Australian Museum in Perth. Part of the Western Australian Museum chain (Geraldton and Albany), this museum is located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge. Continue reading for the top exhibits of this wonderful museum.

Top Exhibits at the Western Australian Museum Perth

 

If you like visiting museums, especially historical museums, you should visit the Western Australian Museum in Perth. Whether you fancy getting close to a taxidermied wallaby, dinosaur fossils, meteorites, or hundreds of colourful butterflies, you’ll find it all contained in the state’s most comprehensive museum. The engaging Western Australian Museum has a floor devoted to Aboriginal culture, with a moving section on the controversial stolen generation. Continue reading for the top exhibits of this wonderful museum.

 

 

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Top Exhibits at the Western Australian Museum Perth

 

1. “Western Australia: Land and People” Permanent Exhibition

In the Hackett Hall wing you will find one of the highlights of the Western Australian Museum in Perth – the permanent exhibition “Western Australia: Land and People”. The exhibition tells the story of Western Australia’s history from dinosaurs to indigenous beginnings and the environmental issues now facing the state. It focuses particularly on the struggle to tame the natural environment.

 

 

2. “Diamonds to Dinosaurs” Permanent Exhibition

Another brilliant permanent exhibition at the Western Australian Museum in Perth is “Diamonds to Dinosaurs” which uses fossils, rocks, and gemstones to take you back 3.5 billion years.

 

 

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3. “Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of Western Australia” Permanent Exhibition

The exhibition “Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of Western Australia” has a fascinating collection of primitive tools and lifestyle artifacts used thousands of years ago by Australia’s Aboriginals.

 

 

4. Old Perth Gaol

The Western Australian Museum complex also includes some of Perth’s oldest structures, such as the Old Perth Gaol. Built of stone in 1856, this was Perth’s first and only prison until 1888. After being decommissioned as a gaol (jail) it became Perth’s first museum. The Old Perth Gaol was once a favourite spot for hangings.

The Old Perth Gaol houses a big collection of rare photographs on life in the original Swan River colony.

 

 

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5. Megamouth

Head to the courtyard of the Western Australian Museum in Perth to find one of the strangest exhibits in the museum. Set in its own preservative bath, ‘Megamouth’ is a curious-looking species of shark with a soft, rounded head. Only about five of these benign creatures have ever been captured; this one beached itself near Mandurah, south of Perth.

 

 

6. Other Exhibits

In addition to the highlights mentioned above, the Western Australian Museum has a gallery of dinosaur casts, a good collection of meteorites, and mammal, butterfly and bird galleries. The museum also hosts several international and temporary exhibitions which enhance the permanent displays.

 

 

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7. Museum Café

Get a feeling for Perth’s criminal past and have a coffee at the Muse Café in the leafy courtyard on the ground floor of the Old Perth Gaol building, close to where executions once took place.

 

 

8. Children’s Discovery Centre

The museum has a children’s discovery centre, which runs popular programs in school holidays on themes such as biodiversity.

 

 

Getting to Western Australian Museum Perth

By Train – Perth station

By Bus – Blue CAT Stop 8 (Museum)

 

 

Western Australian Museum Perth Timings

Opening hours – 9:30am to 5pm, daily

Guided tours – 11am & 2pm, daily

 

 

Western Australian Museum Perth Price

Admission is free, except for temporary exhibitions

 

 

Western Australian Museum Perth Address

Perth Cultural Centre,

James Street,

Northbridge,

Perth,

Western Australia

 

 

Western Australian Museum Perth Official Website

www.museum.wa.gov.au

 

 

Tell us what you think. What makes you want to visit the Western Australian Museum in Perth? If you’ve been to this museum before, what was your favourite exhibition and why?

We love to hear from you so please leave your comments below.

 

 

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