- The Big Camera Photographic Museum is situated 134 kilometres east of Perth right on the Great
Eastern Highway at Meckering.
- The Big Camera Museum is the only museum of photography open to the
public anywhere in Western Australia and the building is shaped like a
giant camera with displays of over 1,000 items including cameras (dating
from eight years before photography was invented right up to the
present), projectors, enlargers, processing equipment, magic lantern
projectors and slides, movie cameras and projectors( from nine and a
half millimetres up to super eight millimetres),epidiascopes, zoetropes,
phantascopes, kaleidoscopes and three dimensional photography.
- Also available is information regarding the Meckering earthquake that
occurred in 1968. Photographs and newspaper articles are on display and
local tourism information is available.
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