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used as an airstrip for light aircraft demonstrations. Stirling Gardens and Supreme Court
Gardens have lawns and formal gardens which fill up with city workers at lunchtime.
Perth Mint
(
www.perthmint.com.au
;
310 Hay St; adult/child $15/5; 9am-5pm)
Dating from 1899, the oddly com-
pelling mint displays a collection of coins, nuggets and gold bars. You can fondle a bar
worth over $200,000, mint your own coins and watch gold pours (on the hour, starting
10am).
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Northbridge
Art Gallery of Western Australia
OFFLINE MAP
GALLERY
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.artgallery.wa.gov.au
;
Perth Cultural Centre; 10am-5pm Wed-Mon)
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Founded in 1895, this excel-
lent gallery houses the state's pre-eminent art collection. It contains important post-WWII
works by Australian luminaries such as Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Grace Cossington
Smith, Russell Drysdale, Arthur Streeton and Sidney Nolan, but it's the Indigenous galler-
ies that provide the highlight.
Work ranges from canvases to bark paintings and sculpture, and artists include Rover
Thomas, Angilya Mitchell, Christopher Pease and Phyllis Thomas. The annual WA Indi-
genous Art Awards entries are displayed here from August to December. Free tours take
place at 11am and 1pm on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, at 12.30pm and
2pm on Friday, and at 1pm on Saturday.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
(PICA;
www.pica.org.au
;
Perth Cultural Centre; 11am-6pm Tue-Sun)
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Commonly referred to by its
acronym, PICA (pee-kah) may have a traditional wrapping (it's housed in an elegant 1896
red-brick former school), but inside it's anything but, being one of Australia's principal
platforms for cutting-edge contemporary art - installations, performance, sculpture, video
works and the like. It actively promotes new and experimental art, and exhibits graduate
works annually.
GALLERY
