Take a museum tour in Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Founded in 1895, this gallery housed in three heritage buildings contains the state's most important collection of artworks, including one of the world's finest collections of Indigenous art. Other notable collections ar...more
Indigenart - The Mossenson Gallery
Souvenir shops flogging indigenous artworks and "authentic" boomerangs and didgeridoos are a dime a dozen in Perth, but if you're serious about indigenous art, this is where you'll find it. Run by Indigenart, the Mossens...more
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
An exciting space where both graduates and established artists can exhibit contemporary installations, sculpture and video works, PICA also provides a platform for new and experimental dance and theatre. Housed in a larg...more
The Western Australian Maritime Museum Shipwreck Galleries
Housed in a restored convict-built 1850s limestone Commissariat building in Fremantle's historic maritime precinct, the Shipwreck Galleries is internationally renowned for being a centre of excellence for maritime archae...more
Western Australian Museum
Technically, there's seven arms of the Western Australian Museum scattered across the state, but Perth's flagship site, opened in 1891, is still the pick of the bunch. Perhaps the most interesting of the permanent exhibi...more
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