Western Australian Museum (1891 - )

Summary

The Western Australian Museum was established in 1891. Originally known as the Geological Museum it was located in the old Perth Gaol. In 1897 it was renamed the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, before becoming the Western Australian Museum in 1959 when the Art Gallery and Museum became independent institutions.

Details

The Western Australian Museum was established as a statutory body in 1969. As a statutory body it has five branches in addition to the Perth branch known as The Western Australian Museum. These include:

• Museum of Geraldton, which focuses on the Mid West region of Western Australia;
• Museum of the Goldfields, which focuses on the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia;
• WA Maritime Museum, located in Fremantle focuses on Western Australia's relationship with all things maritime;
• Museum of the Great Southern, which focuses on the Southern region of Western Australia; and
• WA shipwrecks Museum, which is a maritime archaeology museum

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Woodward, Bernard, Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery (Perth: Ames and Heller, 1900), 100 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Bevan, A. W. R., 'The Western Australian Museum meteorite collection' in The history of meteorites and key meteorite collections: fireballs, falls and finds, McCall, G. J. H., Bowden, A. J. and Howarth, R. J., eds (London: Geological Society, 2006), pp. 305-23. Details
• Chadwick, Ross, '"Your Obedient Servant": the John Tunney Collection at the Western Australian Museum' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 255-77. Details
• Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. Details

Journal Articles

• Bevan, A. W. R.; and Downes, P. J., 'Mineralogy at the Western Australian Museum', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 6 (2) (2000), 93-100. Details
• Downes, Peter J.; Bevan, Alex W. R.; and Deacon, Geoff, 'The Fletcher Collection of Minerals at the Western Australian Museum: a Late 19th Century Gem', Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 16 (1) (2011), 3-14. Details
• Marsh, L. M.; Fromont, J. and Salotti, M., 'A catalogue of recent echinoderm type specimens in the Western Australian Museum, Perth', Records of the Western Australian Museum, 19 (1999), 391-411. Details
• Mcnamara, Kenneth J.; and Radford, Susan P., 'Professor Tennant's fossils: a founding collection of the Western Australian Museum', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 111-27. Details
• Paterson, Alistair; and Witcomb, Andrea, '"Nature's marvels": the value of collections extracted from colonial Western Australia', Journal of Australian studies, 45 (2) (2021), 197-220. Details
• Renwick, Doreen M., 'Otto Lipfert: Taxidermist to the Western Australian Museum, 1894-1942', Early Days, 10 (1) (1989), 57-72. Details
• Serventy, Donimic Louis, 'L. Glauert. [obituary of Ludwig Glauert, Director Emeritus of the Western Australian Museum]', Emu, 63 (1) (1963), 74-75. Details
• Zylstra, Baige, '"Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 59-74. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/public-library-museum-and-art-gallery-of-western-australia-au-wa-a496. Details
• 'Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [2]', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/western-australian-museum-art-gallery-2-au-wa-a669. Details
• 'Western Australian Museum [1]', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/western-australian-museum-1-au-wa-a183. Details
• 'Museum of Western Australia', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/museum-of-western-australia-au-wa-a830. Details
• 'Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [1]', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/western-australian-museum-art-gallery-1-au-wa-a668. Details
• 'Background and Mission', in Western Australian Museum, Western Australian Museum, 2018, http://museum.wa.gov.au/about/background-mission. Details