Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The functions of the
Museum include the following —
(a) to
encourage, and to provide facilities for, the wider education of the community
of the State, through the display and other use of collections and through
knowledge derived from collections;
(b) to
make and preserve on behalf of the community of the State collections
representative of the Aborigines of the State, the history of the exploration,
settlement and development of the State, the natural history of the State and
such other collections which the Trustees think necessary for the wider
understanding of those matters and for the educational function of the Museum;
(ba) to
preserve on behalf of the community any remains, wreck, archaeological or
anthropological site, or other thing, whether in the place where it is
discovered or elsewhere, which in the opinion of the Trustees is of special
national or local interest;
(c) to
aid the advancement of knowledge through research into collections and into
such other matters as the Trustees think relevant to that purpose and by
publishing the results of research;
(d) to
provide facilities to encourage the interest of persons and bodies in the
State in the culture and history of the Aborigines of the State, in the
history and natural history of the State and in anything allied to those
matters;
(e) to
aid the work of universities, State and Commonwealth institutions and schools,
and independent schools by the exercise of such of the Museum’s
functions as the Trustees may approve;
(f) to
train employees of the Museum and such other persons as the Trustees may
approve in the making, caring for, researching into and the employment for
education of collections of the Museum.
[Section 9 amended by No. 65 of 1973
s. 6.]