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

Lovely day trip for some local history. Highly recommend and if you have time go on the tour.

We went passed the town and decided to drop in for shelter due to stormy yesterday, sadly most of the place are closed. Regardless a lot of changes since last visit. Still a lovely place to relax.

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

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.

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

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.

We decided to take a little road trip from Perth to New Norcia today, and we were not disappointed. Driving into town I can understand the reviews saying it’s all closed up, but if you have the time to do one of the tours you will be treated to an entertaining and informative experience, and get to see inside many of the buildings there. Today we were hosted by Sue, who has been working there for 50 years. She was engaging, funny, and had so many stories to tell. We were also lucky enough to see a monk perform on the organ and piano. After the tour we went into the museum and the art gallery, which was much bigger than we anticipated with lots of art work, including historic, contemporary and from Aboriginal artists. We really enjoyed the trip and would thoroughly recommend it.

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.