Online Jigsaw Puzzles from our collection

The COVID-19 virus is a global pandemic that will have massive impacts on Western Australia, as it will the world. The Museum of Perth invites the West Australian community to join us in collecting a digital archive that chronicles the Coronavirus in our state. Photo by Reece Harley

The Federal Hotel, originally built as Stein’s Coffee Palace, was located on the south-east corner of Douro (now Wellington) and George Streets, Perth. Designed in 1896 by J W Wright & Co, it was built by G Nicol in 1897 for Bernard Stein.

This building, which was said to constitute one of the finest private edifices in Perth, was situated at the corner of St George’s Terrace and Barrack Street, alongside the Weld Club and diagonally opposite the Post Office (now the Treasury Building).

On 10 July 1919, Reg embarked at Suez with his mate Morie, May’s brother Eric McSwain and her uncle Mick, arriving in Fremantle on 4 August 1919 to a huge crowd. Five days later, Reg and May married in West Guildford’s Wesley Church.

The largest and most grand of all of Perth's cathedrals, St Mary's, in Victoria Square, has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth for over 150 years. Originally built in 1865, the cathedral has undergone three separate expansions throughout its life.

Held in Perth from November 22nd to December 1st, with the first ever Paraplegic Games running November 10-17th, the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were a showcase of Perth's potential as a hub for international sport, with the Paraplegic games seen as a beacon of rehabilitation in Australia.

Serving the City of Perth as our primary access to the rail lines, the current Perth Railway Station has stood in place on Wellington Street for over 100 years, having replaced the original station which had first opened to the public in 1881.

Harold is in a 1903 R model Oldsmobile (5 horsepower, 1 cylinder), produced in Detroit by car manufacturer Ransom Eli Olds between 1901 to 1905. This model is often known as the ‘curved dash’ Oldsmobile. Famous for its lightness, it allowed motorists to go almost anywhere and was one of 3,924 produced that year.

It is rare that a WWI collection of this significance becomes public.  In private hands for a hundred years, this collection documents one man’s deeply personal account of war and tells a slightly different tale to others; one never heard before.

Born in Midland “beneath the shadow of the Town Hall clock”, Ivan is a veteran of over a hundred plays, revues, musicals and operettas, as well as countless other theatrical events.

Built to partially house the increasing number if convicts transported to the state, Old Perth Goal is one of the oldest buildings in Perth, and a reminder that Western Australia was briefly a penal colony under the British Empire.

During the War and after Armistice, Reg was regularly deployed to the YMCA for signwriting duties at the Rest Camp at Port Said, Palestine and, from May to July 1919, to Zagazig, in Lower Egypt.

Mrs Enid Fergusson-Stewart is driving Fergus’ 1903 De Dion Bouton Q. She is parked at the front of their new home at 25 Market Street, Guildford in the summer of 1907-1908. Beside Enid is their son Athole (nearly two) and beside him is their older son Edmund (four and a half).

The invasion was initially peaceful because the Aboriginal people believed the white men were the returning spirits of their own dead relatives, however, cultural conflict developed between the original landowners and the new land occupiers. As Noongar people fought for their land- Rottnest Island began to hold the leaders and young warriors who stood in the way of European development.

What a colourful history has East Fremantle! Many of the stories of local people collected in this website, reflect the huge divide between the rich, elite and often eccentric ‘entrepreneurs’ living in the grand mansions overlooking the river in Richmond and the working class men and women living in the crowded houses of Plympton.

Thomas and Fanny Carroll purchased the land in 1889 and from there ran a boat building business. Thomas William Whiteley, built the home as well as other historical buildings in Fremantle – the house became colloquially known as ‘The Boat Builder’s House’.

“Mr G M Schilling, the champion long walker of America, desires to THANK Mr Pryor, Hairdresser, of Victoria Street, Bunbury, for his present of 12 packets of Cameo cigarettes and also states that he received the best shave and haircut from Mr Pryor, since leaving America”