Gold Fields supports WA Museum’s regional sites

Gold mining company Gold Fields has entered a three-year partnership with the WA Museum and the Foundation for the WA Museum.

Gold Fields will be the presenting partner of two significant projects focused on the WA Museum’s regional museum sites: the Aboriginal Bush Food and Medicine Garden at the Museum of the Goldfields in Kalgoorlie, and digital audio guides.

Foundation for the WA Museum chief executive Coralie Bishop spoke on the importance of the partnership.

“We look forward to working with Gold Fields over the coming three years and seeing the outcomes of this new partnership take place,” she said.

“The expanded Aboriginal Bush Food and Medicine Garden as well as the digital audio guides will provide exciting new opportunities for WA Museum visitors to explore and share their identity, culture, environment and sense of place.”

Established in 2022, the Aboriginal Bush Food and Medicine Garden at the Museum of the Goldfields was created to preserve and share Indigenous knowledge.

The garden aims to strengthen the community’s understanding of food and biodiversity, as well as sustainability.

With the support from Gold Fields, the garden will be significantly expanded to incorporate a much larger variety of plant species and encourage cultural education and dialogue among communities.

Gold Fields will also support the creation of digital audio guides to provide accessible and enriched visitor experiences across the WA Museum’s four regional location — Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Albany and Carnarvon.

Gold Fields chief executive Mike Fraser commented on the partnership.

“We are thrilled to be supporting such an iconic WA organisation that is focused on telling Western Australian stories through its diverse voices,” he said.