Visitors to WA Museum Boola Bardip will have a unique opportunity to step from exhibition to expedition on Saturday 18 July 2026 at 14:00 hours! This is when WA Museum scientists aboard the research vessel R/V OceanXplorer will broadcast live to the Museum while the vessel is undertaking a major deep-sea research expedition in the eastern Indian Ocean.
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Featuring more than 225 exceptional Chinese artefacts, including the warriors, the exhibition introduced Western Australian audiences to the life, legacy and afterlife of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuang.
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the Albany Then & Now Photography Competition which closed last Sunday, 7 June. Congratulations to everyone who entered the competition, it was a pleasure to review all the creativity and talent from across the region.
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Women in sport have been breaking tackles, records and expectations for decades, but many of the stories and treasured items from their histories have been missing from the WA Museum’s collection.
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Michael Malaxos Tsolakis OAM was just 16 when he left Kastellorizo, one of Greece’s easternmost Mediterranean islands, to begin a new life in Western Australia.
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On 13 April 1969, 23-year-old Lesley Meaney stood on the shore of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island and began swimming towards Fremantle. Approximately nine hours later, she reached the mainland, becoming the first woman to complete a solo crossing of the Rottnest Channel.
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Caterina Vallesi (née Cardinali) was married in Porto San Giorgio, Italy, in 1955 — but her groom, Umberto Vallesi, was thousands of kilometres away in Western Australia!
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On 31 August, Museum in a Container and its latest exhibition Camels and Cameleers headed to the Chapman Valley Show, captivating visitors with stories from WA's past.
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French Empress, Joséphine Bonaparte may be little-known, but her legacy is a profound contribution to the Australian and French cultural connection is the focus of the WA Maritime Museum’s latest digitally immersive exhibition, Empress Joséphine's Garden.
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The Western Australian Museum has partnered with the Department of Justice to welcome a group of women from the Yirra Djinda Program that is run at the Boronia Pre-Release Centre for Women.
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The Foundation for the WA Museum’s second strategic annual grant to the WA Museum will go towards two multi-year projects.
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The WA Museum has confirmed that a shipwreck found in the Swan River in September 2023, is that of a barge owned by Mr Dearden, lost in 1882 whilst carrying limestone from Fremantle to Perth.
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Nominations are now open for the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, and we need your support to nominate the WA Maritime Museum for the Tourist Attraction category.
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Dust can be a nuisance on Earth, but beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a real nightmare.
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Prepare to be amazed this National Science Week as the Museum of the Goldfields bands together with other exciting organisations in the Goldfields region to ignite your curiosity with Science After Dark on Thursday 15 August from 5pm – 7.30pm.
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Spiders are not everyone’s cup-of-tea, but this National Science Week the Western Australian Museum is celebrating the identification of 24 new species of hooded wishbone spiders from WA.
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Visitors to the Western Australian Museum’s seven museums will be familiar with our collections: massive meteorites in Boola Bardip; the America’s Cup-winning winged keel in the WA Maritime Museum; sub-sea technology that revealed the subjects for the Shipwrecks Museum; the fish drawings of Rober
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Newly commissioned digital artworks from Western Australian Aboriginal artists and content producers are front and centre at WA Museum Boola Bardip as part of the Museum’s public art program.
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A newly described species of Pilbara land snail has been discovered by WA Museum scientists and named in memory of a beloved family dog.
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