I happened to visit the State Library of Western Australia while I was waiting for the Museun of Western Australia to be opened. The library and the museum open at 9am and 9.30am respectively on weekdays.
The library is a pretty nice place! There's a small corner which shows snippets of the past of WA through different means, for example, you can feel the material that some copies of the newspapers were printed on, or smell the flowers discovered by the botanist Ericksson.
There are also small huts in the library that show videos of the past and you can just lie down comfortably on the beanbags to view the films.
Another nice spot in the library is the library shop. You can find really cheap and used books on sale, one of the items that tempted me to purchase were the pretty mugs with the illustrations of Roald Dahl's books. I saw mugs of The Girrafe and the Pelly and Me, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, etc. Luckily there's no Matilda, or I would have spent the 12AUD there.
It's a nice place to visit before going to the museum as you can just spend 30 minutes learning more about WA.
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