The Museum and Art Gallery is New Norcia’s star attraction and is visited by tens of thousands of people annually. Established on its present site by Abbot Bernard Rooney in 1978, the Museum and Art Gallery was formerly St Joseph’s Aboriginal Girls’ Orphanage.

The New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery houses the largest collection of religious art works in Australia and is set out over three levels.

The ground floor is an eclectic mixture of monastery memorabilia, & Art Galleries on the first floor and the famous Charles Gardner botanical collection and St Josephs exhibition on the third floor.