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The 10 Best History Museums in Greater Perth, Western Australia
Discover the best top things to do in Greater Perth, Australia including The Sacred India Gallery, Revolutions Transport Museum, The Nostalgia Box Museum, Museum of Natural History, City of South Perth Historical Society Inc., Armadale History House, Fremantle Prison, Western Australian Medical Museum, Mount Flora Regional Museum, Perth Cultural Centre.
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1. The Sacred India Gallery
2. Revolutions Transport Museum
3. The Nostalgia Box Museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 258 reviews
Featured in 2019 Guinness World Record Gamer's Edition and Lonely Planet, The Nostalgia Box is Australia's first interactive Video Game Console Museum. The museum is a celebration of video games and the people that made them happen. The museum contains more than 100 consoles, representing the evolution—and sometimes revolution—that occurred from the 1970s through the 2000s. Go behind the scenes of your favorite games and consoles, learning about the tremendous work that went into them. Play a plethora of classic video games, replaying games from your childhood or making entirely new discoveries. Play a round of Pong, challenge a friend to a high score in Space Invaders, or blast through levels of Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog, Alex Kidd, and Crash Bandicoot. This is merely scratching the surface. Relive your childhood, discover gaming's sometimes secret history, and plant appreciation for old-school gaming in a younger generation.
Reviewed By jeremysO8894OV - San Francisco, United States
The Nostalgia Box is a museum about gaming and specifically video games, as it contains more than 100 consoles. The Nostalgia Box is the first interactive video game console museum in Australia and it is located in the Western of the country, in Perth. It was featured in the 2019 Guinness World Record Gamer’s Edition and Lonely Planet. I am a big gamer myself and I couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to visit this incredible place. I choose to play only pokies that require no download and no registration because I don’t like wasting time. I find pokies that work at pokieslab.com, link attached in by bio. I am not a big console player but I couldn’t pass out on this. I tried playing some original Nintendo games such as SEGA and I have to say that comparing to pokies it was a familiar experience. The simplicity of the gaming experience is the same and both have a nostalgic feeling sometimes. Pokies are simple games with a clear goal like many other older games. Playing pokies online though was a little different than playing live with people surrounding you and I wouldn’t say I like the attention. I also played some of the Arcade games that I was too young to experience when they were in.
4. Museum of Natural History
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By Q7840EUdanl - Bunbury, Australia
So glad that we decided to visit the Museum of Natural History, it is home to one of Australia's foremost taxidermists and many fine examples of his art are on display. So lifelike. The exhibits are expansive and probably deserve a larger premises to reduce crowding. The room is packed with examples and heads of animals and other fauna rarely if ever sighted, even in zoos. We septuagenarians thoroughly enjoyed our visit, just a shame that our youngest grandchildren were not with us so that we could enjoy their wonder.
5. City of South Perth Historical Society Inc.
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 4 reviews
Open Fridays 10-4, Saturday, Sunday 1 - 4pm Original artworks by May Gibbs, creator of the iconic Gum-Nut Babies and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie with items of local history are exhibited in this distinctive 1904 building restored as an Art Museum and Gallery. From 1889 May Gibbs lived in a charming home across the road from this building, part of a unique group of five heritage buildings.
Reviewed By 619jeffry - Essendon, Australia
The South Perth Historical Society is housed in a handsome colonial era red brick building. Displays change regularly -- when I visited, it was an exhibition devoted to May Gibbs, who is best known for her Gumnut Babies. The museum is open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Fridays and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Entry is gratis. The museum is on the corner of Mends St and Mill Point Road. Parking is usually available nearby.
6. Armadale History House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 8 reviews
Reviewed By 382albert - Perth, Australia
The displays are very professionally presented with an excellent interactive screen that allows you to explore the history of the area. The current temporary display “Excess Baggage” which deals with the WW1 men and women who went to war and returned, explaining what it was like when they returned. Excess baggage referring to the wounds both physically and mentally that they had to deal with on return to Australia.
7. Fremantle Prison
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 4,057 reviews
Fremantle Prison is one of Western Australia’s premier tourist attractions and the only World Heritage listed building in the State.The Prison was built by convicts in the 1850s and was used as a place of incarceration for almost 140 years. With solitary cells and gallows Fremantle Prison is a monument to a system of punishment that is uncomfortably recent. Fremantle Prison now holds the key to history, mystery and fun. Step inside and do time with experienced guides on a fascinating Prison Day Tour. Explore the labyrinth of tunnels 20m beneath the Prison by foot and by boat on a Tunnels Tour adventure. Feeling brave? Delve into the darker side of the Prison’s history on an eerie Torchlight Tour.
Reviewed By R2072TOjulieb - Caulfield, Australia
We had Chris for our True Crime Tour and Janine for our Torch Light tour which were both really good and worth doing. The True Crime tour talks about crimes committed but does not go in to too much detail and therefore is not gross. If you want to hear more about the Claremont case I can recommend the Crime Junkie pod cast which has an episode on the case... This does however go in to a fair amount of detail and would not be recommended for under 16s. The Torch Light tour is good and a very different experience again. A little scary at times but great fun and interesting history on the place.
8. Western Australian Medical Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By 619jeffry - Essendon, Australia
Medicine has come a long way from the early days of the last century, when medicine was sometimes as much an art as a science. The exhibits often look like instruments of torture rather than methods of treatment. The Museum is open 10:30 am to 4:00 pm on Wednesday, and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on the second Sunday of the month. This museum is worth a detour, it is at the rear of the King Edward Memoral Hospital for Women (KEMH), or "KIng Ted" as it is often called.
9. Mount Flora Regional Museum
10. Perth Cultural Centre
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 20 reviews
Reviewed By 619jeffry - Essendon, Australia
The recent opening of the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip adds a new dimension to the Perth Cultural Cenre which had been sadly lacking while the previous WA Museum was being rebuilt. The area around James St was once run down, but it is now the cultural hub of Perth. The WA Art Gallery has a good collection, including local artists. The State Library of WA has an unmatched collection of WA publications, including the Battye Library, which concentrates on WA's local history. PICA -- the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts -- usually has something interesting on show, and the theatre centre showcases live performance. The Cultural Centre is connected to the Perth Railway Station by a convenient walkway. It's easy to spend a day checking out the Cultural Centre, there's something new every time I visit Perth.
