Esperance Museum

Southern WA


This warehouse is filled with everyday objects from yesteryear, as well as Aboriginal weaponry (spot the fishing boomerang!), a vintage locomotive and a 19th-century train carriage you can climb aboard. Other big items include boats, a train carriage and the remains of the USA's spacecraft Skylab, which made its fiery re-entry at Balladonia, east of Esperance, in 1979.


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