All education programs
Year 4 - 6 | Living things are remarkable in their ability to adapt to changing environments. Come and explore some adaptations of our avian friends, or perhaps marine life is more your focus. The choice is yours.
Year 5 - 7 | Explore how our urban environments are constantly undergoing physical change, making conditions for local wild life somewhat unpredictable.
Year 3 - 4 | Delve into the work of the Museum’s scientists and the techniques they use to classify living and non- living things.
Year 6 - 12 | Challenge your students with this part scavenger hunt, part escape room Museum trail!
Year 4 - 6 | Learn about the early encounters and collisions of culture between the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia and a variety of newcomers.
Year PP – 3 | Take a step back to the ‘cold time’, the Nyitting (Dreaming), and explore the creation of everything.
Year 7 - 12 | Explore the role of the archaeologist and critically examine ethical concerns facing collecting in cultural institutions.
Year PP - 3 | Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.
Year 4 - 6 | Travel back billions of years and discover how microscopic organisms changed the conditions for life on Earth forever.
Year 3 - 10 | Discover WA's endangered animals and get students to think critically about species loss from other perspectives.
Year 7- 10 | Explore how entrepreneurs take their passions and turn them into successful businesses.
Year 4 – 6 | Get hands on with robots in this creative, innovative workshop.
Year 10 - 12 | Torn away from family, culture and Country, Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia not only survived but fought for their right to regain control.
NEW in 2025 | Year 7-9 | Learn more about our Moon, its formation and the potential for water on the surface.
Year 7 - 9 | Find out how Aboriginal peoples have intentionally managed Country to create regrowth and replenishment.
NEW in 2025 | Year 6-8 | Explore stories of movement and migration across Perth and Western Australia.
Discover some of Australia’s most important Aboriginal artworks that became central to the Native Title documentation.
Year PP - 12 | Self-guided exploration of the permanent exhibitions at Boola Bardip allows you and your students to explore at your own pace.
Year 1 - 10 | Enhance your self-guided Museum visit with our self-guided trails.
Tertiary | Introduce your tertiary education group to the extensive collection of objects and stories at WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year 7 - 12 | Join us for guest artist workshops hosted for the Lester Prize Youth Awards.
Year PP - 3 | This brand new program for 2024 will explore change through a social and geological lens, as we use Boola Bardip as a case study to explore the concepts of "then and now".
Year 4 – 6 | Engage virtually with stories of first contact based on objects found in the Museum.
Year 4 - 6 | How do humans impact life around us? How do we know? Most importantly, what can we do about it?
Year 9 - 10 | Hear stories from WA's Homefront in this Virtual Webinar Presentation
Join Dr Mark to learn what weird and wonderful things we store in glass vials and jars, from scorpions and trapdoor spiders to millipedes and pseudoscorpions.
WA Museum maritime archaeologists are asking this very question through exploring the chemical make-up of glass bottle fragments found on shipwrecks to see if they can help determine where the glass came from.
NEW in 2025| PP-2| Dive into the world of water; its importance for life around us and its use as a resource.
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