Gnowangerup Aboriginal Museum & Keeping place

This museum shows the history of the indigenous people associated with the local Mission and Stirling Range, who used the plains as hunting grounds for thousands of years.

Built from local bricks by builder Charlie Parker in 1913. It was home to many people in the area. If the building could talk it would tell you how it was………

A new home for the Baptist pastor Reverend Edward Clugston, who lived there until 1919.
A sanctuary for returned soldier Alfred Strachan, local tailor, and his wife Elizabeth in the early 1920s.
A boarding house run by Mrs Jack Moran in the later 1920s.
A much loved home of George Hendry, storekeeper, and his family for over four decades.
A hive of activity and ideas when, in 1972, it became the Gnowangerup Noongar Centre, owned and run by the New Era Aboriginal Fellowship.
Left vacant and fell into disrepair after the new hall, which became the Aboriginal Noongar Centre, was built next door in 1989.
Saved from demolition in 1994 when the Gnowangerup Historical and Preservation Society banned together to try to turn it into a Noongar and Pioneers Museum.
Recognised on the Shire of Gnowangerup Municipal Inventory of historic buildings in 1996
Renovated for its new purpose as a Noongar heritage centre, training local Noongar men in building skills during renovation in 2010 and 2011.
Entered, in May 2012, into the Western Australian State Heritage Register, in recognition of its importance as the first Aboriginal non-government rural support centre.

For more information
Contact the Gnowangerup Aboriginal Corporation Chair, Robbie Miniter on 0439 982 008.