All education programs

Facilitated

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.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7
Curriculum
HASS
Facilitated

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.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 - 6
Curriculum
Science
Science inquiry skills
Science understanding
Facilitated

Year 5 - 7 | Explore how our urban environments are constantly undergoing physical change, making conditions for local wild life somewhat unpredictable.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 5 - 7
Curriculum
Science
Science inquiry skills
Science understanding
Sustainability
Environment
Biodiversity
Facilitated

Year 3 - 4 | Delve into the work of the Museum’s scientists and the techniques they use to classify living and non- living things.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 3 - 4
Curriculum
Science
Science inquiry skills
Science understanding
Learning Resource

Year 6 - 12 | Challenge your students with this part scavenger hunt, part escape room Museum trail!

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 6 – 12
Curriculum
Critical and creative thinking
Facilitated

Year 4 - 6 | Learn about the early encounters and collisions of culture between the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia and a variety of newcomers.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 – 6
Curriculum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia
HASS
Critical and creative thinking
Facilitated

Year PP – 3 | Take a step back to the ‘cold time’, the Nyitting, and explore the creation of everything.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year PP - 3
Curriculum
Science
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Facilitated

Year 7 - 12 | Explore the role of the archaeologist and critically examine ethical concerns facing collecting in cultural institutions.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7 – 12
Curriculum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
HASS
Critical and creative thinking
Facilitated

Year PP - 3 | Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year PP – 3
Curriculum
Science
Science inquiry skills
Science understanding
Palaeontology
Facilitated

Year 4 - 6 | Travel back billions of years and discover how microscopic organisms changed the conditions for life on Earth forever.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 – 6
Curriculum
Science
Science understanding
Environment
Learning Resource

Year 3 - 10 | Discover WA's endangered animals and get students to think critically about species loss from other perspectives.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 3 - 10
Curriculum
Science
HASS
Digital technologies
Facilitated

Year 7- 10 | Explore how entrepreneurs take their passions and turn them into successful businesses.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7 – 10
Curriculum
Critical and creative thinking
Design and technologies
Learning Resource
Year 9 - 12 | Use Gogo to go your own way around the museum, accessing extra content and the many stories of WA. 
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 9 - 12
Curriculum
Science
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Facilitated

Year 4 – 6 | Get hands on with robots in this creative, innovative workshop.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 – 6
Curriculum
Digital technologies
Facilitated

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.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 10 – 12
Curriculum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Ethical and Intercultural understanding
Facilitated

NEW in 2026 | Year 7-9 | Learn more about our Moon, its formation and the potential for water on the surface.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7-9
Curriculum
Science
Science as a human endeavour
Digital technologies
Facilitated

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

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7 – 9
Curriculum
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
HASS
Sustainability
Facilitated

NEW in 2025 | Year 6-8 | Explore stories of movement and migration across Perth and Western Australia.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 6-9
Curriculum
HASS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Self-guided

Year PP - 12 | Self-guided exploration of the permanent exhibitions at Boola Bardip allows you and your students to explore at your own pace.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year PP - 12
Learning Resource

Year 1 - 10 | Enhance your self-guided Museum visit with our self-guided trails.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 1 – 10
Curriculum
HASS
Science
Sustainability
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Virtual Lab

Explore select highlights of the incredible Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor exhibition — from anywhere!

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
4-12
Curriculum
HASS
Historical knowledge and understanding
Self-guided

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

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Facilitated

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". 

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year PP - 3
Curriculum
WA History
HASS
Virtual Lab

Year 4 – 6 | Engage virtually with stories of first contact based on objects found in the Museum.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 - 6
Curriculum
HASS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Virtual Lab

Year 4 - 6 | How do humans impact life around us? How do we know? Most importantly, what can we do about it?

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4 - 6
Curriculum
Science as a human endeavour
Sustainability
Virtual Lab

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 Boola Bardip
Curriculum
Science
Virtual Lab

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.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Science
Facilitated

NEW in 2025 | PP-2 | Dive into the world of water; its importance for life around us and its use as a resource.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
PP-2
Curriculum
Science
HASS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Self-guided
WA Museum Boola Bardip is proud to be a Children’s University Learning Destination and welcomes a visit to the Museum as a great opportunity to add to your Passport to Learning. 
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Child playing with plants and seeds

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