• 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.
  • These new prisoners required a larger dedicated housing facility within the city itself and thus, Perth Gaol was built between 1854 and 1856.
  • The Perth Gaol (often referred to as the Old Perth Gaol) was a gaol built in Perth, the state capital of Western Australia, between 1854 and 1856 to house...
  • 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.
  • Photo by Linda Seccaspina 2015 during a Perth Classic Theatre event Return of Convictions for the Period Ending June 14, 1898 Trespass: Jno.
  • 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.
  • This seems to be a Perth thing, but I've noticed a lot of Perthians write it as "Gaol" like we're in the 1840s and you lost your left leg to scurvy on the way in.
  • Abstract. Between 1875 and 1888, Colonial Perth Gaol was the principal gaol within an expansive carceral system.