WA Police Pavilion Exhibition

Creative Spaces has designed the WA Police Pavilion at the Perth Royal Show for more than a decade, delivering annual exhibitions from 2014 to 2025. This long-standing collaboration reflects a strong working relationship built on trust, adaptability and a shared commitment to meaningful community engagement.

The WA Police Pavilion is one of the Royal Show’s largest and most visited public-facing exhibitions, welcoming tens of thousands of visitors each year. Each year the pavilion is developed as a complete exhibition environment, designed to engage families, support learning through play and provide insight into contemporary policing in Western Australia.

While the format evolves annually, the brief consistently focuses on accessibility, interaction and relevance. Creative Spaces works closely with WA Police units to translate complex roles, technologies and responsibilities into experiences that are clear, engaging and age-appropriate. Exhibition design typically combines large-scale graphics, immersive environments, hands-on activities and staffed interaction zones, ensuring visitors can both explore independently and speak directly with officers.

Over the years, pavilion themes have reflected changing priorities and public interest. Past exhibitions have explored regional policing across Western Australia, road safety and crash investigation, emergency response, forensic science and emerging policing technologies. Immersive tunnels, interactive hubs and simulated environments have allowed visitors to step inside policing scenarios and better understand how different units work together.

In 2025, the pavilion adopted a playful mystery-solving format titled The Monster Coin Heist. Families were invited to help solve the case of a stolen bag of coins by collecting clues from different WA Police units across the pavilion. Each unit presented a unique activity or challenge, encouraging children to move through the space, ask questions and build an understanding of specialist roles while working collaboratively to identify the culprit.

Across eleven years, the WA Police Pavilion has consistently balanced education with entertainment, creating memorable experiences that foster trust, curiosity and connection. For Creative Spaces, the project demonstrates the value of long-term partnerships and the ability to deliver evolving, large-scale public exhibitions that remain engaging, relevant and robust year after year.

Photography by Aaron Brown