Today’s podcast is with Alec Coles who is the CEO of Western Australian Museums. 

If you’re like me and you’ve been to the museum in Albany or the new museum in the city and thought to yourself how good the museums actually are, Alec is the man behind it all. Alec has grown a reputation for converting museums from stifled by a certain type of demographic to thriving museums that everyone can enjoy and learn something. 

Alec was headhunted to become CEO of Western Australian Museums twelve years ago and this episode is the story of those twelve years including the struggle of two different governments, an iron ore price crash and a fashion week that changed the outlook of Western Australian Museums forever. 

If you’re a resident of Western Australia and have been to some of the museums, you’ll find this story of Alec’s to shed a light on what museum’s can offer our state.