
All education programs
Year 7 | Uncover the story of Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb and the Terracotta Warriors. Step into the role of an archaeologist and explore the secrets of ancient artefacts.
Tuesdays and Thursdays | 10am and 12.30pm
Tuesday 5 August 2025 - Thursday 19 February 2026
Excluding school holidays and Thursday 14 August
Year PP - 12 | Visit our newest exhibition with your class and book an optional intro talk.
Monday 30 Jun 2025 - Friday 20 Feb 2026
Optional Introductory Talk
Starting 6 August 2025 (excluding school holidays)
Wednesdays & Fridays | 10am and 11am
Talk duration: 30 minutes
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.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 5 - 7 | Explore how our urban environments are constantly undergoing physical change, making conditions for local wild life somewhat unpredictable.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 5 - 12 | Experience the history and culture of Ancient China
Thursday 14 August 2025 | 9.45am - 2.15pm
Friday 21 November 2025 | 9.45am - 2.15pm
Year 3 - 4 | Delve into the work of the Museum’s scientists and the techniques they use to classify living and non- living things.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
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.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year PP – 3 | Take a step back to the ‘cold time’, the Nyitting, and explore the creation of everything.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 7 - 12 | Explore the role of the archaeologist and critically examine ethical concerns facing collecting in cultural institutions.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year PP - 3 | Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 4 - 6 | Travel back billions of years and discover how microscopic organisms changed the conditions for life on Earth forever.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
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.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 4 – 6 | Get hands on with robots in this creative, innovative workshop.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
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.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
NEW in 2026 | 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.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
NEW in 2025 | Year 6-8 | Explore stories of movement and migration across Perth and Western Australia.
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.
Explore select highlights of the incredible Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor exhibition — from anywhere!
Wednesday 30 July | 8.30am - 9.30am WST
Tuesday 9 September | 8.30am - 9.30am WST
Friday 24 October | 8.30am - 9.30am WST
Thursday 20 November | 8.30am - 9.30amWST
Tertiary | Introduce your tertiary education group to the extensive collection of objects and stories at WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year PP - 3 | This program explores change through a social and geological lens, as we use Boola Bardip as a case study to explore the concepts of "then and now".
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Year 4 – 6 | Engage virtually with stories of first contact based on objects found in the Museum.
Wednesdays & Fridays during term time
9.30am, 10.30am & 1.30pm
Year 4 - 6 | How do humans impact life around us? How do we know? Most importantly, what can we do about it?
Wednesdays & Fridays during term time
9.30am, 10.30am & 1.30pm
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.
Watch on demand
Year 4-12 | 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.
Watch on demand
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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