Are you looking for the ultimate way to entertain the kids throughout the school holidays? The Western Australian Museum is brimming with a wide variety of programs and events, ensuring children of all ages are entertained across our six locations around the State! Here are some highlights, but for the complete list of activities, click HERE. See you soon at the WA Museum!
WA MUSEUM BOOLA BARDIP
WA Museum Boola Bardip is offering non-stop boredom-busting activities during these school holidays.
Let your kids dive into one of our popular drop-and-leave programs, and create everything from unique claymation to museum soundscapes and even journey to distant virtual lands in their own Minecraft adventure.
Explore Three Journeys and celebrate the art of Aboriginal storytelling, learn the ins and outs of Aboriginal knowledge systems or take on an outback Mario Kart track.
Rise to the challenge of Tinker Lab where creativity is king in a haven of hands-on exploration kids can get on the tools, build structures, or solve creative challenges.
Get up close and personal with some of the Museum’s beloved reptiles at our Remarkable Reptiles Up Close tour or crack the hidden code at Codebreakers.
WA Museum offers an array of accessibility options, including Colour Accessibility Kits and Sensory Backpacks.
Find out more HERE.
WA MARITIME MUSEUM AND SHIPWRECKS MUSEUM –
Eighties fever is set to make WA Maritime and Shipwrecks Museum totally tubular these school holidays.
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Eighties fever is set to make WA Maritime and Shipwrecks Museum totally tubular these school holidays.
Let your kids harness the power of the wind and ride the waves of imagination as they design, race and craft all things sailing, taking inspiration from the iconic Australia II yatch.
Reel in your hidden fishing talent at Recfishwest’s junior fishing clinic or grab a snack and get comfortable at one of Maritime Museum’s 80’s movie screenings.
Walk the plank and jump into one of WA Shipwreck Museum’s school holiday adventures, where pirates have taken over!
Two pirate captains have struggled ashore near the WA Shipwrecks Museum and are in search of a crew, filled with real maps and real treasure so don’t miss the amazing award-nominated adventure presented by Pirates!! As part of FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL 2024.
Find the treasure trail and take home a pirate’s share of the loot, craft your own treasure chest or listen to some swashbuckling pirate tales at the Museum’s storytelling sessions.
Find out more about the WA Maritime Museum's activities HERE.
Find out more about the WA Shipwrecks Museum activities HERE.
MUSEUM OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN
Prepare to journey to the edges of the universe at the Museum of the Great Southern these school holidays.
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Prepare to journey to the edges of the universe at the Museum of the Great Southern these school holidays.
Join the quest for answers and surf through the stars at the Museum’s latest exhibition Beyond the Milky Way, a 360° VR film that lets you witness our world from a new perspective.
The Museum’s Discovery Centre has become mission control, and they need some creative engineers to help build, craft, and create.
Kids can journey on their very own cosmic adventure after crafting a space shuttle, prepare for lift off with a rocket or craft their own alien fleet!
Study the surface of the moon with your very own DIY Moon Nightlight then get to tinkering and build a model space rover to trek across the Museum grounds.
Find out more HERE.
MUSEUM OF THE GOLDFIELDS
Follow the path of the pirates or head out of this world at the Museum of the Goldfields these school holidays.
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Follow the path of the pirates or head out of this world at the Museum of the Goldfields these school holidays.
Follow the map and navigate from one exciting activity to the next at the Museum’s Outback Island Pirate Trail.
Prepare to set sail and take on challenges like gold prospecting, fishing, shark wrestling, code breaking and make sure to keep an eye out for the message in a bottle.
Take a break from treasure hunting and travel back in time when humans only dreamed of walking on the moon in the Out of this World exhibition.
Dress as an Astronaut, build and decorate a collaborative rocket for your space flight and construct and learn about constellations as you are transported back in time to the hype and captivation of the 20th-century space race.
Find out more HERE.
MUSEUM OF GERALDTON
Dig into dinosaur mayhem and discover the secrets of the Cretaceous period at the Museum of Geraldton these school holidays.
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Dig into dinosaur mayhem and discover the secrets of the Cretaceous period at the Museum of Geraldton these school holidays.
The Dinosaur Explore: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous exhibition has roared its way into the Museum and brought a roster of dinosaur-filled fun with it.
Get started at the Cretaceous Corner where kids can choreograph a dino dance or piece together a 3D puzzle of T-Rex ribs.
Put your paleontological papercraft skills to the test and make a working Mosasaurus snapping skull or scratch, dig, and prise away the sediment of your very own fossil dig kit!
Discover more about dinosaurs at Drop-in Science Hour where some fascinating fast facts and curious dinosaur secrets will be revealed.
WA Museum’s resident palaeontologist will be joining the fun to talk all things prehistoric at ‘Meet the paleontologist’ with Dr Mikael Siversson.
Find out more HERE.
