The Western Australian Maritime Museum, in a striking sail-shaped building on Victoria Quay, covers the state's relationship with the sea — from the Dutch east-India shipwrecks of the seventeenth century, through the convict transports of the nineteenth, to modern shipbuilding, yacht racing, and fishing fleets. The collection is unusually rich for a regional museum.
Allow at least two hours; with the submarine HMAS Ovens, moored alongside and included in the ticket, allow three. The Ovens — an Oberon-class diesel-electric of the 1960s — is one of the few decommissioned submarines anywhere in the world that can be entered and walked through end to end. Combined ticket with the older Shipwreck Galleries is good value.