All education programs
Empower your students to become creators, problem-solvers and storytellers in the schools design thinking challenge From Story to Showcase.
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 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
Design Thinking Through Objects. Bring Hidden Treasures to Life!
Primary: Tuesday 5 May 2026 | 9.30am-2.00pm
Secondary: Thursday 7 May 2026 | 9.30am-2.00pm
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 7-10 | Learn more about our Moon, its formation and the potential for water on the surface.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
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
Join us for National Science Week 2026!
Monday 17 August - Friday 21 August
Year 6-8 | Explore stories of movement and migration across Perth and Western Australia.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
Wednesday 27 May - Wednesday 3 June 2026
Year PP - 12 | Self-guided exploration of the permanent exhibitions at Boola Bardip allows you and your students to explore at your own pace.
Weekdays during school term | 9.30am - 4pm
Every half hour
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.
Thursday 12 May | 10am - 12pm, 1.30 - 3.30pm
Thursday 4 June | 10am - 12pm, 1.30 - 3.30pm
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 & 1.00pm
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 & 1.00pm
Year 9 - 10 | Hear stories from WA's Homefront in this Virtual Webinar presentation
Friday 20 March 2026 | 1.30pm – 2.30pm | WW1
Friday 27 March 2026 | 1.30pm – 2.30pm | WW2
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
PP-2 | Dive into the world of water; its importance for life around us and its use as a resource.
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
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