OMA’s Museum of Western Australia completes

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Perth project incorporates some of state’s oldest surviving buildings

OMA and Hassell have completed Perth’s new Museum of Western Australia.

Exhibitions are being installed in the flagship building in the heart of the city’s cultural district, with doors set to open in November.

The A$400m (£212m) glass and streel structure wraps around, and in some places, hangs over, existing 19th-century buildings, including some of the oldest surviving buildings in the state.

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