Shire of Wagin

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Gaze on a gallery as you borrow a book

You can find the Shire of Wagin's art collection in the library: This is an intimate space to house an intimate collection. The Shire’s art collection includes items from the Sir Claude Hotchin bequest, the Wagin Woolarama Art Prize and other local donations.

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Address:

3 Trent Street
Wagin WA 6315
Australia

Tel:

(08) 9861 1247

Email:

shire@wagin.wa.gov.au

Opening Hours

Mon 2 - 4pm; Tues 2 - 5pm; Wed and Thurs 10am - 12pm & 2 - 5pm; Fri 1 - 5pm; Sat 10am - 12pm

Uundinup by Andy Dolphin

Bush tracks

Andy Dolphin is a West Australian artist who works in many different mediums. However, he is most well-known for his long career in oil paintings, which capture the beauty of the Australian bush. He...

Untitled by Athol (Moordipa) Farmer

Wetij

This painting depicts a weitj (emu) by a waterhole. It is not known which waterhole, but there is a place called Wedgecarrup, located near Wagin. Wedgecarrup means water like place of the emu. The...

Driving Home by Drewfus Gates

The physicist painter

Headlights in the rain: You can imagine this as a cold winter's night in the South West, driving home in the rain. Drewfus Gates is both a physicist and a painter and has painted portraits of key...

Forrest Museum

An intrepid four-wheel drive or fly in to visit this museum

This little museum is in a location that could best be described, in Australia, as ‘woop woop’ - or, the back of beyond! The Forrest Museum is in the old weather station and shares the aviation, rail...

Eastern Goldfields Historical Society Inc

A researcher's dream

The Eastern Goldfields Historical Society was formed in 1946 and has an impressive collection which includes objects, and archives of historical documents and photographs. The photographic collection...

Northam Heritage Centre: Northam and Districts Historical Society and Northam Army Camp Heritage Association

Historic railway station captures Northam’s history

Northam’s old railway station remains in such good condition that it’s easy to imagine it as it was from its earliest days in 1900. The station formed part of the Eastern Goldfields Railway which, at...

Merredin Regional Library

Old school local history collection and research in the library

The local history collection at the Merredin Library was started to gather items not connected to military and railway history, captured in other local collections. The Merredin Library is located in...