New Norcia Benedictine Community: Visitor Centre, Tours & Museum + Art Gallery

Highly recommend attending Sunday Mass if you can. Beautiful uplifting music sung by a small choir accompanied by a talented organist. Haunting sounds of pipe organ. Take the time to walk around the sacred grounds

The guided tour is not to be missed! A peaceful and picturesque place - easy to spend half a day here, between the guided tour and museum. Pleased to see the museum has a surprisingly healthy art collection! I hope they can recruit more monks and keep this place going. Michelle was an excellent and knowledgeable tour guide.

Such a unique and peaceful place! The tight-knit community makes you feel so welcome — friendly faces everywhere. A beautiful experience you won’t find elsewhere!

One of the most inviting places of interest, history and preserved antiquities in Western Australia. Thoroughly recommend the guided tour. Our guide Michelle was a very knowledgeable, helpful and generous lady.

Loved the tour guide, and other places which we could peruse leisurely. Stay was pleasant.

My family and I have returned to New Norcia time and time again. There is so much to love here. From the comfortable and homely accommodation and meals, the rich history, the peaceful prayer with Benedictine monks, the museum full of riches and genuine art, the musical genius of Fr. Robert Nixon and the authentic kindness from Fr. John the Abbot. Stay for the numerous retreats and events, like the spectacular Abbot's Table, or simply for the sake of peace and prayer. While you're here, buy a translation of a rare Latin text that had never been translated to English before Fr. Nixon...! I cannot praise New Norcia enough. God willing, may this community endure for ever.

You should visit here. It was an amazing experience, especially with Tracy. We did a 1:30pm tour for 2 hours. My parents were super tired after the tour but I was fascinated about history of New Norcia. Even I didn’t missed it any single minute ❤️🙏🫶

Visited this Monastery during my recent visit to Australia. It was interesting to find the timelines and wondered how the entire area was built by the priests and other well wishers. Most of the structure is intact even today and maintained carefully. The bakery which was started long back is still functioning and they are selling the bread at the information centre. Walked around the place and enjoyed each and every part of the Monastery.

The only negative was not having access to the monestary - those expectations should be reset early on the tour (or in advance of the $14 ticket price). But so many positives: * knowledgeable, passionate, and engaging tour guide. * very interesting museums and exhibition rooms. * focus on the local indigenous culture. * no religious bias. I can recommend for a day of exploring, for sure.