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In November 2025, the Western Australian Museum worked with the Australian Embassy and the Indonesian Heritage Agency to deliver a two-day workshop on museum management and curatorial practice at the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta.
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Albany Then & Now: Historical Panoramas of Menang Noongar Boodja is an invitation to journey through time and place.
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Dr Mark Harvey milestone of naming more than 1,000 species - rare achievement. One of few living scientists to have achieved this.
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As you move through Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor, it’s easy to be swept away by the sheer scale of it all. Sometimes, it’s easy to miss things...
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The 2025–26 Emerging Curators Program has officially begun.
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When we hear the word shipwreck, it tends to conjure up images of storms, navigation errors and even tragedy. But did you know some shipwrecks reach the seabed by design?
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Inspire your curiosity at the Museum of the Great Southern this summer when it is taken over by animatronic, life-size dinosaurs from Saturday 12 November 2022.
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Call for Expressions of Interest
The Western Australian Museum is seeking expressions of interest from the community to join the Fremantle Museums Advisory Committee.
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Explicit and casual racism continue to be a daily experience for many Australians, as evidenced by recent events in WA.
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Have you ever wondered what interesting facts slimy aquatic snails and underwater creatures can tell us about the world they live in?
Also known as “molluscs”, these gastropods are the second largest phylum (or group) of invertebrate animals in the world.
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A herd of dinosaurs rampaged through Perth today on their way to the Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition at the WA Museum Boola Bardip.
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The WA Maritime Museum today opened its doors to Fremantle Then & Now: Historical Panoramas – a new, immersive, and interactive exhibition exploring the changing face of Fremantle from the 1800s to the present day.
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Stuck for ideas on how to entertain the kids these school holidays? Then you’ve come to the right place.
Our holiday programs are jam-packed with fun activities to suit kids of every age - even the grown-up ones!
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A recent fieldtrip with Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation (WGAC), saw some of our scientists carry out exciting research on Wunambal Gaambera Country in the far north of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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An exhibition showcasing the creativity of bush mechanics and their inventive repair techniques will open at the Museum of the Goldfields on Saturday 24 September.
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In a generous act of philanthropy, an incredibly rare and valuable black cowrie shell found in Western Australian waters was recently gifted to the Western Australian Museum’s Aquatic Zoology department.
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On Friday 9 September, the Western Australian Museum will launch an innovative and interactive digital experience, which brings together almost 400 years of one of Australia’s most notorious events – the wreck of the ship, Batavia, in 1629.
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Seven pseudoscorpion species believed to be new to science have been discovered by our Head of Department and Curator (Arachnids and Myriapods) Dr Mark Harvey on a Bush Blitz expedition in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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