WA Shipwreck Museum, Fremantle

G'day Mates,

Today I only have a short story but to my opinion a very interesting one. Not that I tell you so much but I just want to get people who live in the neighbourhood, but also tourists who visit Fremantle, to persuade to go to this beautiful museum. And guess what! It's for free, but of course they would be very pleased if you donate and that's worth doing because it's a great museum.

OK, enough talking, I provide you with a few pictures and the rest you really have to see yourselves..

The WA Shipwrecks Museum is recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere and is housed in 1850s-era Commissariat building and has since been restored to its historic glory.

Steeped in history, the galleries house hundreds of relics from ships wrecked along WA's treacherous coastline, including the original timbers from the Batavia (wrecked in 1629), the de Vlamingh plate, and also countless artefacts from the Dutch shipwrecks Zuytdorp, Zeewijk and Vergulde Draeck.

Can you imagine, we are not great museum people, except for Danny as he loves museums and we can give him all the credit as he dragged us to here and we don't regret, anyhow, I have been reading a lot of this stuff and sometimes had goosebumps from the cruelty they did in those days....

The "De Vlamingh plate"....

(There is a whole story about this plate and one of the volunteers of the museum explains it all) 

Here you can see how the Aboriginals tell what they saw.....

On a balcony you can walk around the shipwreck on which you have a great view....

and the plaque explains what you see......

The Dutch VOC .... 

Once again I ask you to go and see this museum, I promise, you won't be disappointed....

AND....... don't forget to donate!

Cheers!