the kodja place visitor & interpretive center

The rose maze is amazing.just a maze but with the life stories of 3 women shown through plaques it really is an emotional look at history in wa.great ideas and for a small town it is truly fantastic,take a few minutes if your passing through you won't be disappointed.

Great to hear you enjoyed your visit hope we can welcome you back again one day. Kind regards Glenys

The Exposition was very informative, the guided Tour with Jack a bit short but good, The Rose Maze gave a lot of background information about the former times till today

Unique & unexpected. Delighted to find the fantastic Rose Maze. You wind your way through the magnificent blooms with heavenly scents as you follow the story of three Australian women - an indigenous girl, an early settler & an Italian migrant. Captivates the imagination you can't wait to read the next instalment. Don't miss this?

good food and nice atmosphere- check out the rose garden maze.. If you have to stop on the trip between Perth and Albany, this is probably the best place- but check out opening hours.

what a great place to learn about the area. real people telling real stories. beautifully set out and lovely gift shop. dont miss it.

This was a very intersting stop on the long drive from Perth. There was an interesting exhibition telling you both about the indigenous people and their lives beofre and when the settlers arrived. This was short enough that you did not get bored but with sufficient to tell the stories.When we were there we were the only people there.

Situated on Albany Highway..... if travelling from Perth keep travelling along the highway past the bakery. When you spot the Wool wagon turn left at Kojonup Park. This place is actually a complex housing.......1. a visitor centre complete with maps, brochures, souvenirs and locally produced jams and chutneys etc. The toilets are clean.2. an Interpretive Centre which costs $6 per person to enter, although today we were permitted to enter by donation because the technology was down.3. Black Cockatoo Cafe and4. The Rose Garden.Plenty of parking. There's Kojonup Park across the road with BBQ, seating and children's playground and public toilets. Also there is a Kokoda Track memorial.

We stopped at Kojonup last October by chance on our way from Albany (a great place) to Busselton. We had been driving through farmland for a couple of hours by the time we stopped for a break, coffee and a sandwich. The visitor centre brought me up short and my wife had to drag me out. The biographical information and displays are well presented and made a lasting impression. They brought into sharp focus the fact that all this landscape is an artefact made in less than 100 years by settlers from the UK and all over Europe (but often with lots of labour from the original settlers). Those who designed and laid out this centre deserve respect. Worth a stop, worth a detour. Very thought provoking.

Often thought of as a good stopping point between Albany and Perth, the local community has developed a great asset in this complex. Part museum, part rose garden, part cafe, part gift shop, this complex offers a great resource for the traveller who wants a break from driving.The rose garden maze in itself is a great reason to stop. Together with plantings of several hundred rose species, there are intertwined stories of families through the 20th century told through the eyes of three women -- one indigenous, one British and one Italian. The plaques give the narrative in the form of fragmented diary entries or letters and tell the passage of these women and their families through different life stages of joy and loss. These stories make you aware how social attitudes have changed and are possibly more intristically interesting that the roses.The cafe is also very good, though a tad pricey. Their focaccias were great and the berry and mint smooth delicious, but my partner's coffee was rather weak. However, the cafe staff were able to remedy the situation with another shot of coffee!Overall, well worth the stop to look around and experience a wheatbelt town.

Kojonup is a quaint town about 150 km from Albany on the highway from Perth. A good place to stop for tourist info and the cafe has good food and coffee. Very popular though.

Lots of interesting information on the Aboriginal people. The building is lovely being rammed earth and the displays are well presented. Don't stop for coffee though as it costs a small fortune.

Amazing place we could not believe the quality of this museum. It tells the history of the land and people in the area from the indigenous to the farmers. Blended beautifully with their differing tools of trade and ways of life. So thought provoking in many ways. The changes to both worlds I loved the farmer saying that "now they want him to plant trees, before they wanted him to kill them." The 3 generations of aboriginal women the 2 older women explaining about turtle eggs the ritual of finding and cooking and eating them. The youngest one saying I haven't tried a turtle egg "I don't think I'd like them".The museum looks like it belongs in a major city because of the quality of the displays, but there is something much more personal. You certainly leave with a better understanding of all the people who have lived in this area.

This is one of my favourite museums. It's small (it's in a country town!). It tells a story of country life, and life as farmer. It's well designed interesting and thought-provoking.