All education programs

Visit our newest exhibition with your class and book an optional intro talk.

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 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.

Year 7 - 9 | Find out how Aboriginal peoples have intentionally managed Country to create regrowth and replenishment.

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.

Tertiary | Introduce your tertiary education group to the extensive collection of objects and stories at WA Museum Boola Bardip

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?

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.