WA Shipwrecks Museum
WA Museum Shipwrecks
One of the leading maritime archaeology museums in the Southern Hemisphere, displaying the reconstructed stern of the Batavia, a Dutch ship that sank in 1629.
The Shipwrecks Museum occupies a colonial military supply warehouse built in the 1850s and is a branch of the WA Museum. Its treasure is the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that ran aground in the Abrolhos Islands in 1629. The museum has reassembled the stern using timber recovered from the wreck, and it tells the story of the shocking mutiny and massacre that followed the disaster. Other exhibits include a pewter plate left by Dutch navigator Willem de Vlamingh in Shark Bay in 1697, which was returned from France in 1947, along with old coins and other wreck artifacts. Admission is free, though donations are suggested. It is a few minutes' walk from Fishing Boat Harbour or the Round House.
Opening hours
09:30–17:00
Nearby sights
- Round House, Fremantle
- Bathers Beach
- Bon Scott Statue
- Little Creatures Brewery
- West End & High Street
- WA Maritime Museum
- Fishing Boat Harbour
- Fremantle