Woodlands Cultural, Community and Visitor Centre Overview

Woodlands Cultural Community and Visitor Centre

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Welcome to Ngadju Country

For many travellers Norseman is just a fuel stop, before continuing North, South or East. However, the Woodlands Cultural, Community and Visitor Centre encourages visitors to consider learning about Ngadju Country, or visiting more locations around Norseman and the Shire of Dundas. A giant map greets you with information about places to stop across the Nullarbor and the Centre also works with Norseman Historical Museum to curate a small rotating display of items.

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Address:

78 Prinsep Street
Norseman WA 6443
Australia

Tel:

(08) 9039 0040

Email:

tourism@dundas.wa.gov.au

Opening Hours

Mon to Fri 8:30am - 4:30pm; Sat 8:30am - 12:30pm

Clap sticks

Making music

Clap sticks are percussion instruments, used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Like ceremonial boomerangs they are often used during singing, dancing and ceremony. Instruments like...

Boomerangs

Ceremony

Boomerangs like this are used for ceremony. The boomerangs are tapped together to make a sound, like a drumbeat. They are often used during singing, dancing and ceremony.

Homemade saw circa early 1900s

Home blacksmithing

This homemade saw, donated by John Dixon was found along the water pipeline in Norseman. It is a classic example of the ‘making do’ or ‘make your own’ approach to life in the early 1900s. Due to...

Norseman Historical Museum

A lucky horse finds gold and over a hundred years later a museum moves into the old School of Mines.

This museum has one of the most unusual and quirky items you will ever see - ask to see the typewriter keys! (Story below). Norseman Historical Museum celebrates the Goldfields, mining and local...

Merredin Military Museum

Commemorating the armed services

For military buffs, this place has an interesting collection of items from World War I to the Vietnam War. You won't be able to miss ‘Huey’ an Iroquois UH-1H and the Kiowa, two Vietnam War era...

Old Police Complex

A country police station

The first Laverton police station is described by the guide as ‘tents, tin and fibro,’ with the prisoners brutally chained to logs. In 1899 the original jail was moved from the close-by settlement of...

Shackleton Progress Association

A Wheatbelt town named after an Antartic explorer.

The Shackleton Hall houses a collection which tells the history of settlement in the area. It also includes information related to Kwolyin, a ghost town, located approximately 9km to the west of...