Kununurra Museum

Kununurra stories

For a town that was only gazetted in 1961, the Kununurra Museum has amassed an amazing amount of information, objects and stories about the town and the history of the surrounding region. From 2,000-million-year-old (MYO) fossilised stromatolites, geological explanations about the famed 600 MYO zebra rock, to the 1963 Royal Tour, combined with the full story of tropical agriculture from the 1880s that led to the National Development of the Ord River Irrigation Project, this Museum provides a wealth of visual and digital information.

Address:

72 Coolibah Drive Kununurra
Kununurra WA 6743
Australia

Opening Hours

Mon to Fri 12.30pm - 5.30pm

WWII comes to the East Kimberley

Just a month after Darwin was first attacked by Japanese aircraft in 1942, a Royal Australian Air Force 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62—Australia’s first mass-produced war-plane—was on a salvage mission...

Opening of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme

“Developing the North” has been the catch cry of Governments and the dream of many. Inspired by Steinberg's plans to establish a Jewish settlement in the north, in March 1941, Kim Durack, the son of...

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This is the place of Yawuru

Representing the Yawuru people, the traditional owners of the country around Broome, Nyamba Buru Yawuru (NBY) is committed to a vision of mabu liyan, mabu buru, mabu ngarrangunil – Good liyan, (well...

One big mob altogether so that our grandchildren’s, children’s children will know their culture.

The artists say, ‘This place - it’s a good art centre!’ And it is. In the heart of Miriwoong country the Centre is focused on maintaining and passing on culture through dance, story and painting to...

‘We do art and tell the story.’

Bringing desert and river artists together, Mangkaja has been the base for people such as Butcher Cherrel, Daisy Andrews, Tommy May, Mervyn Street, Sonia Kurrarra, Cory Surprise, John Prince Siddon...

Little bit long way

So says the first of many painted car-bonnet signs as you turn off the Great Northern Highway to travel the 350 kms along the Tanami track to the Warlayirti Artists Art and Culture Centre at Balgo...

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Kangaroo Haven Wildlife Rescue
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Kangaroo Haven Wildlife Rescue
Kangaroo Haven, based in Kununurra, rescues, rehabilitates and releases...
90 Egret Close, Kununurra, WA 6743
The Cambridge Kununurra
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The Cambridge Kununurra
Constructed in the mid-1960s as the Swagman Inn and now under new local...
47 Victoria Highway, Kununurra, WA 6743
Kimberley Fine Diamonds
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Kimberley Fine Diamonds
Kimberley Fine Diamonds is an oasis in the rugged northwest Kimberley. A...
93 Konkerberry Drive, Kununurra, WA 6743
Sleeping Buddha/Elephant Rock
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Sleeping Buddha/Elephant Rock
You don’t have to use too much imagination to see a Sleeping Buddha...
Victoria Highway, Kununurra, WA 6743