The Western Australian Museum is celebrating three 2024 Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice Awards for museums in Fremantle and Kalgoorlie. Reviews from Trip Advisor travellers have placed the Museum of the Goldfields, WA Maritime Museum and WA Shipwrecks Museum in the top ten per cent of attractions worldwide in 2024.

WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said: “Our sincere thanks go to all the visitors and supporters who gave such positive feedback,” Mr Coles said.

“This is the second year in a row that WA Maritime Museum and WA Shipwrecks Museum have received this accolade and a welcome addition to see the Museum of the Goldfields enjoying such incredible visitor feedback as well. In fact, all our museums boast impressive ratings, averaging 4.3 on Trip Advisor, and 4.6 on Google Reviews.  This is in addition to the glowing feedback we receive in person at each of our museums daily.”

Visitors were consistent in their praise of helpful and friendly staff across all three locations, coupled with positive feedback around the museum locations and exhibits.

The WA Maritime Museum, located on Victoria Quay, Fremantle, overlooks the Port, the mouth of the Swan River and the Indian Ocean. significant objects that highlight Western Australia’s cultural, scientific, and sporting heritage. This includes the legendary America’s Cup winning yacht, Australia II, and Parry Endeavour, the yacht in which Jon Saunders circumnavigated the globe three times! International exhibitions and community programs are combined with an award-winning design and stunning location, making it a magnet for international tourists and visitors.

The WA Shipwrecks Museum, housed in the beautiful 1850s Commissariat building is recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere.

Steeped in history, the galleries house thousands of relics from ships wrecked along WA’s extensive coastline, including from four Dutch East India Company (VoC) vessels wrecked in the 1600s and 1700s:  Vergulde Draeck (1656), Zuytdorp (1712), Zeewiijk (1726), and, most impressive, the Batavia (1629).,

The Museum of the Goldfields showcases the rich history of the Goldfields and Esperance region. With the largest display of the State’s collection of gold bars and nuggets, there is plenty to discover about the region’s ,mineral wealth, as well as the excitement and hardships of the first goldrush; but there is also the much deeper history of the Aboriginal communities of the areas, and the impact of the arrival of Europeans.