Red and pink toned roses with leaves flourish on a green textured background
WA Maritime Museum

Location

WA Maritime Museum
Victoria Quay Road, Fremantle / Walyalup

Dates

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Dates

Saturday 31 August 2024 – Sunday 11 May 2025

Tickets

Standard | $15           
Concession | $12.50           
Junior (5 – 15) | $12.50           
Junior (0 – 4) | Free 
Mini Group^ | $50 
^ 2 Adults + 2 Juniors, or  
  1 Adult + 3 Juniors 

 

Session times

Pre book your tickets early to secure your preferred session time and avoid disappointment.

 

Please note, this event has a strict lockout. Arrive at least 15 minutes prior to your session commencing to ensure entry.

 

Unable to attend?

If you can no longer attend your pre booked session, contact us to discuss your options.

 

Access Information

View Visual Story for this exhibition here. 

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Step into an enchanting world of vibrant colour, boundless curiosity, and rich culture as you journey through Empress Joséphine’s Garden.

Your immersive adventure into this captivating digital experience awaits you at the WA Maritime Museum, where it’s making its global debut.

A modern, immersive, and 360-degree digital experience, the exhibition unveils the little-known story of Empress Joséphine Bonaparte’s garden in Paris. Discover how it was filled with flora and fauna from around the globe, including black swans, kangaroos, emus, and hundreds of exotic plants from Western Australia.

Weaving together a shared history between France and Australia, this digital experience explores themes of power, wealth, and the thrill of scientific discovery in the 19th century—all through the eyes of socialite, amateur botanist, and the Empress of France—Joséphine Bonaparte.

Explore the magic of Empress Joséphine's Garden—on now until Sunday 11 May!

AGB Creative logo and WA Maritime Museum logo

Contributing partner Jotterbook Flowers.

Museums and Heritage Awards Shortlisted 2025
A colourful projection of an English style brick manor house and vivid green garden behind a blue and gold ornate fence on a long wall interspersed with the silhouettes of Museum visitors who stand watching the scene
A projection of five historic pages with historic illustrations of roses on a long wall interspersed with the silhouettes of Museum visitors who stand watching the scene
Two people, one in a striped shirt and tied up brown hair, and the other in a black shirt with their long brown hair worn down stare with expressions of excitement at something off-camera. A vividly colourful projection of an English garden and manor house behind a blue fence is projected over the people and onto the wall behind them.
A colourful projection of a painting of Express Josephine who wears a white dress which red and blue details and a crown among images of a yellow flowering plant is projected on a long wall interspersed with the silhouettes of Museum visitors who sit on a bench watching the scene
An adult and a young child stand in front of a large colourful projection of roses and leaves. The young person reaches out their hand to point at the projection

Important information

Before you book

Empress Joséphine's Garden is a modern, immersive large screen timed digital 360-degree experience where audiences move between three rooms. 

Session times

9.45am, 10.30am, 11.15am, 12pm, 12.45pm, 1.30pm, 2.15pm, 3pm, 3.45pm

Each screening runs for 45 minutes.

To ensure we are running on time, please make sure you arrive 15 minutes before your session time.

Unable to attend your session?

If you can no longer attend your pre booked session, please contact us to discuss your options.

Access information

WA Maritime Museum is fully accessible. 
View the Visual Story for this exhibition. 

Special exhibition events

a high tea setup with someone using a phone camera and taking a picture
Public Program

Joséphine’s Garden High Tea 2025

The event is now sold out.

WA Maritime Museum

Saturdays and Sundays | 2.15pm – 4pm
Until Sunday 11 May 2025 Not available during school holidays 

Mother's Day session 8.45am – 9.45am and 2.15pm – 4pm

Exhibition 2.15pm – 3pm | High Tea 3pm – 4pm