WA Shipwrecks Museum

The WA Shipwrecks Museum occupies Fremantle's 1850s Commissariat, one of Western Australia's first public buildings built with convict labor. It stored government food, clothing and building supplies before restoration and conversion to a museum in 1979.

The central gallery contains reconstructed stern timbers from the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia, wrecked in the Houtman Abrolhos in 1629. Other galleries cover the Trial, Zuytdorp, Zeewijk, Vergulde Draeck and SS Xantho through recovered hull timbers, engines, cannon, cargo and archaeological material. An elevated deck looks down over the Batavia remains.

General admission is free, with a suggested $5 donation. The museum is fully accessible, but it has no luggage storage.