• Today the Old Perth Gaol is a prominent landmark within the WA Museum Boola Bardip complex. Feel the grainy texture of the hand-cut limestone bricks.
  • While on this subject we cannot help expressing a hope that a portion of the new Perth Gaol may be appropriated to a fitting place of execution.
  • These new prisoners required a larger dedicated housing facility within the city itself and thus, Perth Gaol was built between 1854 and 1856.
  • Tucked away behind the Western Australian museum, the 159-year-old Perth gaol is a well preserved reminder of the convict beginnings of the colony.
  • The Old Perth Gaol (built in 1855), one of the museum’s four heritage buildings, stands elegantly in the central courtyard.
  • At the heart of WA Museum Boola Bardip stands the Old Perth Gaol, the site of our first Museum building, and a space with a very complex, and often dark history.
  • An innovative digital projection mapping solution has been designed and installed by The Electric Canvas using Christie laser projectors for the Old Perth Gaol, a...
  • Built of stone in 1856, this was Perth's first and only prison until 1888. After being decommissioned as a gaol it became Perth's first museum in 1897.
  • Perth gaols. ... Sir, - Dean Moore in "proving" that the first gaol stood on the present Burt Hall site, has only scratched on the surface of history.
  • Courthouse-644x526.jpg. Photo and text from Perth Remembered. Perth being the seat of Bathurst District the town was given a courthouse and jail.