page_title: Tourism in Perth
section_title: Fremantle
hierarchical_section_title: Tourism in Perth / Arts, culture and science / Fremantle
caption_attribution_description: English: Fremantle and the Swan River viewed from the air, looking east towards Perth CBD. Photograph taken by Kristian Maley, 4 June 2005.
context_page_description: Tourism in Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, is an important part of the Australian state's economy, contributing to the prosperity of businesses in the city, as well as other regions of the state.
  Perth had approximately 2.8 million domestic visitors and 0.7 million international visitors in the year ending March 2012.
context_section_description: Fremantle Arts Centre is a multi-arts organisation, offering a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and music in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia. The building was built using convict labour between 1861 and 1868 and was used as a psychiatric hospital, initially called the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, and later known as the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
  The Western Australian Maritime Museum, located on Victoria Quay contains galleries with maritime themes such as the Indian Ocean, the Swan River, fishing, maritime trade and naval defence. The Western Australian Museum's Shipwreck Galleries is also located in Fremantle, on nearby Cliff Street. It is a specialist maritime archaeology and shipwreck conservation museum, housed in 1850s-era Commissariat building. The Museum also maintains a "Museum-Without-Walls" program via its "wreck trail" and "wreck access" programs at Rottnest Island. These "trails" appear at many places along the coast.
  The Army Museum of Western Australia is a museum located in an historic artillery barracks in Fremantle, Western Australia. The museum, established in 1977, consists of several galleries which reflects the Army's involvement in Western Australia and the military service of Western Australians from the colonial period through to the present day. The museum holds numerous items of significance, including three Victoria Crosses.
caption: Aerial view of Fremantle and the Swan River
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