Curate Your Own Adventure
Reviewing Museums & Heritage Places
Category: Perth
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Now that I’m back in Brisbane, I wanted to take some time and write a reflective piece on the AMaGA 2022 Conference. It would be an incredibly long post if I summarised the whole conference. Instead, I’ve decided to write about three presentations that fall under the conference theme – Hear. Us. Now. To start,…
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This is my second post on Fremantle Prison. If you want to read any history of the Prison, or the tours I did last weekend, then click here. This post is going to focus solely on the behind the scenes tour I went on yesterday evening as part of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association…
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Wadjemup, or Rottnest Island, is located off the coast of Perth and a short ferry ride from Fremantle. If you are taking the ferry from Perth you do have the opportunity to tour part of the Swan River which I highly recommend. Throughout this blog post I will be referring to the island as Wadjemup…
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I am so excited to share with you one of the tours I went on today at the Fremantle Prison. I did two tours of the Prison and while one was great from a history-discovering perspective, the other was a stand-out. More on that later. Like with most heritage blog posts I’ve done over the…
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As promised, here is the blog post on the Art Gallery of Western Australia! After my morning at the Museum, I wandered over to the Art Gallery (stopping to pat three dogs along the way) for a relaxing afternoon. Similar to Brisbane, I love how there is this cultural precinct where you can go and…
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Yesterday I visited both the WA Museum Boola Bardip and Art Gallery of Western Australia. They definitely deserve their own blog posts so I’m going to start with the Museum. The WA Museum Boola Bardip is one of six museums owned by the overarching Western Australia Museum network. The new building only opened in November…
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This year the Australian Museums and Galleries Association national conference is being held in Perth. I had to take this opportunity to visit Western Australia and visit some amazing cultural heritage and institutions. I haven’t left my home state of Queensland for over two years so this is going to be an extra special trip.…
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