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

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