New Norcia Benedictine Community: Visitor Centre, Tours & Museum + Art Gallery

If travelling in a RV vehicle you can camp behind the petrol station/cafe or park on the oval for $10 per self contained RV but still have use of toilets in the village. Cafe serves great food. New Norcia sell their own bread, beer and wine at the information centre. Did the 2 hour guided tour, this place is amazing you can hear a pin drop at night. Should be on your bucket list.

So many people still don’t know about this place and it’s great! Not only do we have some Australian history we have some of the best architectural buildings here with rich history!Definitely worth the stop and doing the tours! Also definitely do the museum section which has a lot of interesting things to see! Highly recommend seeing this place and what it has to offer.

The buildings in this place it self are absolutely stunning. But when you take the guided tour and get to know more about the abundant history it becomes even more incredible. What those monks did 100 years ago and in the century after is breathtaking, inspiring, and moving.Definitely worth a visit if you're a fan of history, architecture, colonie stories, and/or religion.

This was an interesting place to visit and think about how the Monks would have travelled here, lived, built, worked etc. It wouldn't have been easy. The church had flies in the ceiling which were loud and it was good to experience the town and how it was all related to the monastery.

The New Norcia settlement is an absolute must do! We did the 2 hour tour & an exta 2 hours on our own & could still have done more as it is so expansive.

Very interesting place to visit. Two hour tour of buildings well with $13 fee for senior. Guide very informative Husband is chef for the hotel on-site. Artwork and museum very good. Plenty of useful items in monastery shop at reception centre to purchase.

We decided to take a little road trip from Perth to New Norcia today, and we were not disappointed.Driving into town I can understand the reviews saying it’s all closed up, but if you have the time to do one of the tours you will be treated to an entertaining and informative experience, and get to see inside many of the buildings there.Today we were hosted by Sue, who has been working there for 50 years. She was engaging, funny, and had so many stories to tell. We were also lucky enough to see a monk perform on the organ and piano.After the tour we went into the museum and the art gallery, which was much bigger than we anticipated with lots of art work, including historic, contemporary and from Aboriginal artists.We really enjoyed the trip and would thoroughly recommend it.

Lovely and serene town with plenty of history to go around. It’s a lovely place to take a walk and read about the rich history of all the buildings located in this town. There are guided tours available if that’s your thing as well. The products from the bakery are great, even if you can’t visit the bakery itself. All up you could spend a couple of hours here - worth it if you’re passing by!

Beautiful community and the views are spectacular. The local bread, olive oil and wine is excellent though a bit expensive. The monks are very friendly and the services are very spiritual and well conducted. The staff are friendly and helpful.

A small number caravan park/ stop over but still a nice spot. Very cheap and well worth staying for the tour. The bread, beer, olive oil are amazing. If you're touring and looking for something a bit different then this is the place. The roadhouse does some awesome food. $20 power toilet and shower, not bad..On another note, the roadhouse manager left while cooking our breakfast to rescue a traveller that had run out of fuel. A very rare find in today's climate, awsome.