Fremantle Arts House - multi-institution organizes exhibitions, courses of Fine Arts and music lectures in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle.

The imposing building in Gothic-style colonial, occupying an area of ​​2, 5 hectares, dominates the Gulf - once it was the biggest in the state of public buildings constructed prisoners (after Fremantle Prison). It was erected between 1861 and 1868 years, and at one time was used as a mental hospital, and later as a hospital for the insane, committed a crime.

The psychiatric hospital operated until the beginning of the 1900s, when, after two suspicious deaths and the subsequent public outcry, the government conducted an inspection and decided to demolish the building as "not corresponding to the purposes for which it is used." Hospital patients transferred to other hospitals in the 1901-1905 years, but the building survived.

Some time after that the building housed the homeless women, and later it acted midwifery school. During the Second World War there was the headquarters of the US armed forces. After the war the building for a short period has become the body of Fremantle Technical School, and in 1957 the Department of Education once again decided to demolish the building to OSVOD land for the construction of the school. The decision provoked a wave of public protests, led by the Mayor of Fremantle MDM stood Sir Frederick Samson. After several years of desperate search for funding in 1970, it began a project on restoration of the building. Since 1972, it housed the Maritime Museum, and later transferred to the Victoria Embankment and the House of Arts, acting today.

Today in the House of Arts hosts many events that attract more than three million people annually. Especially popular are the summer open-air concerts, which are the stars of the world stage, for example, the group Morcheeba and Groove Armada.