Kununurra Museum

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Kununurra stories

For a town that was only gazetted in 1961, the Kununurra Museum has amassed an amazing amount of information, objects and stories about the town and the history of the surrounding region. From 2,000-million-year-old (MYO) fossilised stromatolites, geological explanations about the famed 600 MYO zebra rock, to the 1963 Royal Tour, combined with the full story of tropical agriculture from the 1880s that led to the National Development of the Ord River Irrigation Project, this Museum provides a wealth of visual and digital information.

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Address:

72 Coolibah Drive Kununurra
Kununurra WA 6743
Australia

Tel:

(08) 9169 1600

Email:

admin@kununurra.org.au

Opening Hours

Mon to Fri 12.30pm - 5.30pm

Wirraway plane wreckage

WWII comes to the East Kimberley

Just a month after Darwin was first attacked by Japanese aircraft in 1942, a Royal Australian Air Force 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62—Australia’s first mass-produced war-plane—was on a salvage mission...

Ord River Stage II Banner and Petter Pump Engine

Opening of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme

“Developing the North” has been the catch cry of Governments and the dream of many. Inspired by Steinberg's plans to establish a Jewish settlement in the north, in March 1941, Kim Durack, the son of...

Warlayirti Artists

Little bit long way

So says the first of many painted car-bonnet signs as you turn off the Great Northern Highway to travel the 350 kms along the Tanami track to the Warlayirti Artists Art and Culture Centre at Balgo...

Town of Port Hedland - South Hedland Public Library Overview

South Hedland Library - local studies collection

A community space – a space for community

A young girl, cast in bronze, sitting on a wooden bench reading her book, welcomes visitors to the South Hedland library. In the ‘new’ town of South Hedland, the library quietly weaves together the...

Shire of Derby, West Kimberley Library Overview

Shire of Derby / West Kimberley Library - local studies collection

Muddy Waters

Named after the Earl of Derby, the town has a rich colonial history as the first regional and administrative centre, supporting the sheep and cattle stations of the west Kimberley. Keeper of this...

Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency

‘We do art and tell the story.’

Bringing desert and river artists together, Mangkaja has been the base for people such as Butcher Cherrel, Daisy Andrews, Tommy May, Mervyn Street, Sonia Kurrarra, Cory Surprise, John Prince Siddon...