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An Apollonaut travel guide
A park of bush and transport.
An introduction to Whiteman Park, the large park in Perth’s Swan Valley where the Motor Museum of Western Australia stands.
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Read the park
Whiteman Park covers about 4,000 hectares in the suburb of Whiteman, 22 km north of Perth’s city centre, in the Swan Valley. Its bushland protects an aquifer that supplies Perth’s drinking water, and it has walking trails, bike paths and playgrounds.
A guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the museums and attractions sit within the park’s bushland.
Trams, trains and transport museums
The park keeps more of Western Australia’s transport heritage: the Perth Electric Tramway Society’s heritage tram line, the Bennett Brook Railway and the Revolutions Transport Museum. Caversham Wildlife Park is here too.
Begin with a detail and ask who uses it, who looks after it and how it changes through the year. A photograph alone cannot tell you that.
A motoring chapter
The Motor Museum shows one side of Whiteman Park: a place where the state’s transport history is kept and shown.
Look at the meeting of the two: the open bushland of the park outside, and the polished cars inside.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who run them.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
