Bookable
An Apollonaut travel guide
A dome at the city’s edge.
An introduction to City West in West Perth, where Scitech and its planetarium stand at the western edge of the city centre.
On this page
Read the district
Scitech is in the City West Centre on the corner of Railway Street and Sutherland Street in West Perth, at the western edge of Perth’s city centre, with City West station nearby.
A guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the planetarium’s drum and dome mark the corner, and how the railway and the roads into the city meet around it.
A landmark dome
The geodesic frame above the planetarium is a familiar sight at City West. Inside, the former OmniMax theatre has been a planetarium since 2004.
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 science chapter
Scitech shows one side of West Perth: a shopping and business centre that has held a science centre since 1988.
Look at the meeting of the two: the car parks and shops of City West outside, and the galleries and the dome inside.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with Scitech’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.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
