Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Western Australian Museum


The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia. It has six main sites: 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 ascendancy within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969.
                                                       Western Australian Maritime
                                                       Albany, Western Australia

Established in 1891 in the Old Perth Gaol, it was kenned as the Geological Museum and consisted of geological amassments. In 1892 ethnological and biological exhibits were integrated, and in 1897 the museum officially became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery.

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