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WA Shipwrecks Museum

Local maritime archaeology

The British were not the first Europeans to sail along Australia’s coastline, a fact brought into sharp relief at this engrossing museum. Occupying Fremantle’s former Commissariat building, its booty includes artefacts from 17th-century and 18th-century Dutch and Portuguese shipwrecks. These includes a section of the hull from the infamous Batavia, whose wreck in 1629 led to mutiny, savagery and murder that still disturbs today.

Together, the museum’s treasures constitute what is widely considered to be the finest collection of maritime archaeology in the southern hemisphere.

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Cliff St, Fremantle

Opening hours: Daily 9.30am-5pm

Admission: Free; suggested donation $5

Transport: Transperth trains run between Perth and Fremantle. The prison is a 750m walk southwest of Fremantle station.

visit.museum.wa.gov.au

History

Perth

Image by Bryn Pinzgauer