Mandurah Heritage Museum, Mandurah, Western Australia

Mandurah Heritage Museum, Mandurah, Western Australia

• Mandurah Community Museum

• Municipal

In 1986 the Mandurah Historical Society established the Mandurah Community Museum in Dalrymple's Schoolroom. They managed and maintained it until the City of Mandurah took over in 2001.
The Museum building comprises of Mandurah's first government school (1899), police cells and courthouse (c1955). Items on display depict Mandurah's social history since European settlement in 1830, photographs show Mandurah's development.

Mandurah is a coastal city in Western Australia, situated approximately 72 kilometres south of Perth. It is the state's second most populous city.

Advice on issues relating to the management of the Mandurah Community Museum and its programs is presented to the City Council by the Museum Advisory Committee.

Officer in charge: Museum Development Officer

Material related to the district and people associated with it, from 1829. Donations of photographs in particular are encouraged - see website.

The Frank Semmens Local Studies Collection includes:

• Newspapers and clippings, 1960-
• Oral histories, providing a record of significant events, places, industries, businesses, Indigenous history and general life
• Pioneering families: information about pioneering families and historic cottages
• Photographs: extensive range
• Books, reports, journals, brochures: subjects depicted include industry, land development, wetlands and the estuary.
  The website 'Our Knowledge, Our Land' provides information about the Mandurah Bindjareb Aboriginal community and includes photos, video, oral histories and significant historical and cultural sites.

Museum Newsletters are available on the website.
Publications and photographs are available for sale.

Open: Tuesday to Friday, 10am–4pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11am–3pm.

Research assistance available.

Copying facilities available.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
• Arts and Culture (Thematic area)
• Built Environment (Thematic area)
• Educação (Thematic area)
• Family / Domestic Life (Thematic area)
• Genealogical (Thematic area)
• Indigenous (Thematic area)
• Industry, Manufacturing and Commerce (Thematic area)
• Local Studies (Thematic area)