WA Museum Boola Bardip
State museum wing housing a guarded case of coins salvaged from a Dutch trading-ship mutiny.
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This guide to WA Museum Boola Bardip in Perth starts at a small, heavily guarded case of silver coins in the Connections gallery, salvaged remnants of a far larger Dutch East India Company treasure. It follows the sixteen twenty-nine wreck of the ship carrying that treasure off the Western Australian coast, the junior merchant left in charge of its stranded survivors, and what happened among the coral islands of the Houtman Abrolhos before a rescue ship returned. Look closely at the case; it is smaller than the story behind it.
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