Museum of Perth explained

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Location:410 Murray Street, Perth, Western Australia
Coordinates:-31.9542°N 115.8608°W

The Museum of Perth is a private, non-profit museum involved with chronicling the social, cultural, political and architectural history of Perth. The museum is currently,, located in a former telephone exchange building on Murray Street, in Perth, Western Australia.

In 2016 the museum was housed in the Atlas Building, on the Esplanade. In 2024 it moved to the Bon Marché Arcade building, in Barrack Street.[1]

Beginnings

It began life as a virtual museum on the social media site Twitter in October 2012, created by Dallas Robertson, a museum studies student at Edith Cowan University. It was expanded into Facebook the following year.

Following an online article about the Twitter page from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Perth) in 2013,[2] Perth City councillor Reece Harley approached Robertson with the view to opening a bricks and mortar version of the museum.[3]

In 2014 the still-virtual museum gained local attention when it led a campaign against the City of Perth to save an art deco factory from demolition,[4] which ultimately failed when a Western Australian state minister intervened to support the local government's decision.[5]

Formation

By July 2015 the Perth History Association was established comprising members Dallas Robertson, Reece Harley, Ryan Zaknich, Ryan Mossny, Richard Offen and Diana Warnock. The not-for-profit organisation subsequently founded the Museum of Perth with Reece Harley as executive director.[6] [7] In October 2015 the Museum of Perth became a reality, with project manager Alysha Worth employed to oversee its establishment. The museum originally operated out of a shared space with cafe Henry Saw on Grand Lane, Perth.[8] [9]

Exhibits

Along with a permanent exhibition on the history of Perth, the museum also contains a micro-cinema and hosts rotating exhibitions on Perth's social history.[10] [11]

The Museum of Perth has also had collaborations with the Town of East Fremantle (Streets of East Freo),[12] University of Notre Dame Australia (Streets of Freo),[13] and the City of Bunbury (Streets of Bunbury)[14] to produce websites about each of those places.

Events

The museum also had been involved in the annual Heritage Perth "Perth Heritage Days".[15]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190403022152/https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/museum-of-perth-set-to-open-on-barrack-st-after-raising-10000-ng-d11b22857a508f3bd42ffda1483c3ebe. Museum of Perth set to open on Barrack St after raising $10,000. Victoria. Rifici. Perth Now. 3 April 2019. 25 August 2015. 19 September 2024.
  2. Web site: Uncovering old Perth through new networks. 8 April 2013. ABC Perth.
  3. Web site: Museum of Perth dream to become reality. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 July 2015.
  4. Web site: Gone in a puff. 23 January 2014.
  5. Web site: Factory smoked by PCC. 31 January 2014.
  6. Web site: Museum of Perth to throw open doors next month. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 August 2015.
  7. Web site: History in making for museum - the West Australian . 7 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160406220324/https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/28719716/history-in-making-for-museum/# . 6 April 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  8. Web site: Museum of Perth opens doors to local history. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 21 October 2015.
  9. Web site: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20170215114010/http://creativespaces.com.au/projects/museum-of-perth-permanent-exhibition/. Museum of Perth Permanent Exhibition. Creative Spaces. October 2015. 15 February 2017. 19 September 2024.
  10. Web site: Elizabeth Quay: the Perth waterfront designs that were never built. Linda. Cheng. 22 January 2016. WAtoday.
  11. Web site: Rare photos of proud WWI diggers - the West Australian . 7 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160208081906/https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/30755896/rare-photos-of-proud-wwi-diggers/# . 8 February 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  12. Web site: Streets of East Freo Museum of Perth » Town of East Fremantle . 2024-09-19 . www.eastfremantle.wa.gov.au.
  13. Web site: About Us . 2024-09-19 . Streets of Freo . en-US.
  14. Web site: Streets of Bunbury . 2024-09-19 . Streets of Bunbury . en-US.
  15. Web site: Perth Heritage Days - History of Barrack Street — Museum of Perth . 1 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160524103019/http://www.museumofperth.com.au/events/2015/10/17/perth-heritage-days-history-of-barrack-street# . 24 May 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  16. Book: Cohen-Robertson, Helena . Gibson, Belinda, (photographer) . Museum of Perth, (organiser) . Know Your Nation, (organiser) . The Museum of Perth proudly presents Shaping Perth, Stories of Our City . 2016 . Museum of Perth . 19 September 2024.
  17. Book: Lovelady, Shannon . Dease, Denis, (photographer) . Harley, Reece, (curator) . Museum of Perth . State Library of Western Australia . The soldiers of Barrack Street : portraits by Dease Studio 1914-1918 . 2016 . Museum of Perth . 19 September 2024.
  18. Web site: Demolished Icons of Perth . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180829083510/https://www.demolishedicons.com/ . 2018-08-29.
  19. Book: Hyland, Joanne . Krantz, David . Museum of Perth . Perth Apartments : The Krantz Legacy . 2019 . Museum of Perth . 978-0-648-50621-8.

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