Galleries , museums , specialist shops and book cafes, open their doors to an eager public. The capital city, Perth , is home to an outstanding array of artists, writers and performers. Western Australia has a large symphony orchestra as much at home in a grand concert hall as a shearing shed, a fine opera company, contemporary rock, folk and multicultural music groups and an imaginative puppet theatre. It boasts a flourishing contemporary crafts and visual arts scene, and a premier ballet company which has travelled the world. Explore the creative and spiritual world of Aboriginal Western Australia from ancient traditions still maintained, to the contemporary Aboriginal cultural activity featured in galleries, museums and interpretive tours.
Aboriginal art generates contemporary and traditional art, craft, dance, music and literature.
Two of Australia's independent publishing houses produce books which offer insights into Western Australian character and environments. One operates from Fremantle , the other in the tropical town of Broome . You will find these and books of other award-winning Western Australian writers, in the many bookshop cafes dotted around the streets of Perth and Fremantle and country regions. Museums and the Perth Zoo tell stories of the State's natural, historical, maritime and cultural progress from the oldest life on earth to contemporary times. A visit to these will help you interpret and put in context what you see as you travel around the State.