Perth

Gallery

Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Art Gallery of Western Australia holds WA's state art collection and presents major exhibitions across its historic and contemporary buildings in the Perth Cultural Centre.

Museum

Berndt Museum of Anthropology

On the UWA campus beside the Swan River, the Berndt Museum holds over 55,000 objects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and material culture — one of the largest such collections in the country. Founded by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, it remains a serious research institution as much as a public gallery, and among Perth's most quietly substantial cultural addresses.

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FORM Gallery Perth

FORM operates across gallery exhibitions, creative learning programs, and cultural tourism — with Aboriginal and Islander partnership at the centre of everything. Its Spinifex Hill Studio supports First Nations artists from the Pilbara. The Perth gallery functions as the public face of a broader organisation with reach across Western Australia's communities, schools, and country.

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Heathcote Museum and Gallery

Heathcote Museum and Gallery occupies a charming colonial hospital building overlooking the Swan River in Applecross, presenting local history collections alongside rotating art exhibitions in a garden setting that reflects the tranquil character of this riverside Perth suburb.

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John Curtin Gallery

Since 1998, John Curtin Gallery has anchored Perth Festival's visual arts program, bringing figures like Lisa Reihana, Isaac Julien and Lindy Lee to Bentley's Curtin University campus. The programming bridges art, science and academia in ways a commercial gallery rarely attempts — three MAGNA Awards suggest the approach lands. Ambitious without being self-congratulatory.

Botanical Garden

Kings Park & Botanic Garden Perth

On the Whadjuk Noongar country overlooking Perth, this 400-hectare park is both a working botanical collection and the city's communal backyard. The Botanic Garden of Parks and Wildlife Authority manages it as a conservation site — not just a lawn for picnics, though it is that too. Free entry, year-round.

Botanical Garden

Kings Park and Botanic Garden

Four hundred hectares of bushland on a ridge above the Perth CBD and Swan River, managed by the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority on behalf of Whadjuk Noongar country. The Western Australian Botanic Garden sits within it, making the case that native flora doesn't need exotic company to hold attention. It does.

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PICA — Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

PICA is Western Australia's leading contemporary arts centre, presentingexhibitions, performance and residency programs by emerging and established artists across visual art, performance and interdisciplinary practice.

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Revolutions Transport Museum

Western Australia's only land transport museum, housing the remarkable Whiteman Collection of diverse historical objects and memorabilia. Explore the evolution of land transport through interactive exhibits, climb aboard historic vehicles, and discover the captivating Singing the Train exhibit celebrating Aboriginal stories of the Pilbara.

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Scitech

Three decades of hands-on science in West Perth, and Scitech still builds every exhibit in-house. The planetarium — Australia's largest — immerses visitors in the night sky, while live shows run daily from the Science and Puppet theatres. The kind of place where the doing and the learning become indistinguishable.

Archive

State Library of Western Australia

The Battye Library of West Australian History sits within these walls — a genealogy collection, photograph archives and newspaper records spanning the colonial era to the present. For anyone tracing a family line or digging into the state's past, this is the primary source.

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The Railway Museum

Rail Heritage WA has been running this Bassendean museum since 1959, making it the state's oldest preservation group. Volunteers do everything — restoration, archiving, publishing. The collection spans rolling stock to records, with ongoing work on diesel locomotive GM 1 and the Leschenault Lady vintage train down at the South West Rail & Heritage Centre in Boyanup.

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WA Museum Boola Bardip

Over 120 years old and holding more than eight million objects, Boola Bardip — 'many stories' in Noongar — is WA's state museum, spanning natural history, human history and First Peoples cultures. The collection alone justifies the visit; the contemporary building makes it easy to spend half a day inside without noticing.