Indigenous Cultures at the Western Australian Museum
The Western Australian Museum’s Department of Anthropology works with indigenous people to maintain collections, prepare exhibitions and conduct research on indigenous cultures from Australia and overseas.
The ethnological programmes have focused on compiling a representative sample of Aboriginal cultural material spanning the timeframe of European colonisation, and represents the finest collection of Western Australian Aboriginal cultural material nationally and internationally. Recently this effort has been targetted towards the acquisition of material that documents contemporary Aboriginal society, in urban and regional areas.
The Foreign Collection, although small, contains some significant collections of material from the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, with the Melanesian and ancient Egyptian material perhaps the most outstanding.
For more information about the go to: Anthropology Department
For more information about our Aboriginal exhibition go to: Katta Djinoong