Museum and Arts Centre, Fremantle | |
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General information | |
Type | Historic building complex |
Location | Ord Street, Fremantle, Western Australia |
Coordinates | 32°02′51″S 115°45′15″E / 32.047469°S 115.754137°E |
Type | State Registered Place |
Designated | 16 November 1993 |
Reference no. | 875 |
The Fremantle Arts Centre[1] is a historic building complex on Ord Street in Fremantle, Western Australia.
The heritage-listed building complex was built using convict labour between 1861 and 1868 and was used as a psychiatric hospital, initially called the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum,[2] and often as Fremantle Asylum.[3][4] It was later renamed the Asylum for the Criminally Insane,[1] and also known as the Lunatic Asylum & Old Women's Home.[1][5]
The site is owned by the state of Western Australia, through the Department of Lands and is vested in the City of Fremantle under a management order, whereby the City is responsible for the buildings, its conservation and routine management.
It currently houses the Fremantle Arts Centre, an organisation through which the City of Fremantle offers a program of exhibitions, residencies, art courses and live music.[6][7] Funding is received from the City of Fremantle, and the Western Australian State Government's Department of Culture and the Arts.[8] It is located opposite the Fremantle Leisure and Aquatic Centre, and is near John Curtin College of the Arts and Christian Brothers College.