Virtual Labs

Join us online direct from your classroom for a series of Virtual Labs. Discover the upcoming facilitated online programs below and book your space or check out some of our previous virtual labs delivered by scientists and researchers.

Upcoming Labs

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
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

Previous Labs

Virtual Lab

What does a palaeontologist actually do? What is the best part of their job and what sort of things do you need to know to become one? Helen Ryan, technical officer of palaeontology at WA Museum, lets you in on some of the things she gets up to in her varied role as a palaeontoligist at WA Museum.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Science
Palaeontology
Virtual Lab
The Museum’s palaeontology collection has over 1,500,000 specimens. Go behind-the-scenes with Dr. Mikael Siversson to learn how these specimens help us understand the history of living things in Western Australian. Mikael will also discuss his own work researching shark fossils found in WA.
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 10
Virtual Lab
In this lab, we’re diving into the unknown! Learn how scientists use technology to record unknown species from the deep ocean.  Dr. Lisa Kirkendale and Dr. Nerida Wilson are two of the WA Museum’s experts in aquatic zoology. Together they will talk about their field work exploring the Ningaloo Canyons on the Falknor deep sea expedition. 
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7
Virtual Lab

Year 7 - 12 | Register for exclusive online access to special National Science Week talks, featuring our collections staff sharing their exciting and innovative work.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Years 4 - 12
Curriculum
Science
Science as a human endeavour
Critical and creative thinking
Virtual Lab

How can DNA samples from the Northern Quoll help save their species? Hear about the importance of this conservation approach and how exactly you collect DNA from a quoll that doesn't sit still for long!

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Science
Virtual Lab

Dr Brian O’Brien was an Australian physicist whose career in space science began in the 1960s designing and launching satellites into space to measure auroras. He also pioneered the study of lunar dust during the Apollo missions, his experiments even ran on the moon! Be inspired and amazed hearing not only about Brian O'Brien's amazing scientific knowledge, but his passion for his scientific endeavours and ever-changing career that spanned 60 years in science.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Design and technologies
Science
Science as a human endeavour
Virtual Lab
Discover how scientists classify species, looking under the microscope and explore the many spiders lurking in the stores of the Museum.
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 7
Curriculum
Science
Virtual Lab

There are some giant fossil skeletons being uncovered in the Pilbara!

Dr Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammalogy at WA Museum, firstly shares the story of the Diprotodon fossils they have been uncovering at the De Boulay Creek site in northern WA.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Science
Virtual Lab

Join Dr Andrew Hosie, curator of crustacea and worms at WA Museum and hear about his current research project. We'll outline the stages of crab development and how identifying crab larvae from plankton samples, then using genetic barcoding to aid in identification, might be useful in future management of our aquatic resources.

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 4-12
Curriculum
Science
Biodiversity
Virtual Lab

Year 9 - 10 | Hear stories from WA's Homefront in this Virtual Webinar Presentation

WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year Level
Year 9 - 10
Curriculum
WA History
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