House Fremantle arts is a multidisciplinary institution, arranging exhibitions, courses fine arts and music lectures in a historic building in the heart of Fremantle.

An impressive building in the style of colonial Gothic, which covers an area of 2, 5 hectares, overlooking the Bay – it was the largest in the state public building, built by prisoners (after the Fremantle Prison). It was built between 1861 and 1868 for years, and at one time was used as a mental hospital, and later as a hospital for the insane, committed the crime.

Mental hospital operated until the early 1900's, when after two suspicious deaths, and the ensuing public outrage, the government undertook a review and decided to demolish the building as "not meeting the purpose for which it is used". Patients hospital were transported to other hospitals in the years 1901-1905, but the building itself survived.

Some time after that, the building housed homeless women, and later worked in him midwifery school. During the Second World war it was the headquarters of the American armed forces. After the war the building for a short period became a corps technical school Fremantle, and in 1957 the Department of education have once again decided to demolish the building to osvojiti land for the construction of the school. The decision caused a wave of public outcry, at the head of which stood the mayor of Fremantle sir Frederick Samson. After several years of desperate search for funding in 1970 began the project to restore the building. Since 1972, it housed the Maritime Museum, and later transferred to the Victoria embankment, and the House of arts, and is still current.

Today in the art House hosts many events that attract more than three thousand people annually. Especially popular are the summer concerts under the open sky, with the stars of the world stage, for example, the group Morcheeba and Groove Armada.