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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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The WA Museum is seeking expressions of interest from residents of the Goldfields region to join the Advisory Committee of the Museum of the Goldfields.
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A new species of barnacle, Membranobalanus porphyrophilus, has been named and described after being discovered living on reefs off Rottnest Island.
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A spectacular virtual reality adventure that takes viewers on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to the mysterious continent of Antarctica will open at the Museum of Geraldton on Friday 30 August.
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Remote reef communities in the central inshore Kimberley survived the 2016 global bleaching event, giving hope to Western Australian marine scientists looking to find ways to combat the effects of climate change.
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An out-of-this-world exhibition featuring stunning images of star trails, night-scapes, and the solar system will be on display at the Museum of Geraldton from 2 August.
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The 2018 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year collection will go on display at the Museum of the Great Southern on Thursday 1 August.
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From this Saturday the WA Maritime Museum is shining a light into the world of some of the most misunderstood animals on Earth, sharks.
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The Ambassador to Australia of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Her Excellency Mrs Marion Derckx, has taken a hard hat tour of WA’s New Museum site in the Perth Cultural Centre to see first-hand where some of the stories of our significant shared cultural heritage will be on display.
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Lustre: Pearling & Australia, an exhibition showcasing the unique and important role that pearls and pearling have played in our nation’s history, returns to Western Australia for its premier regional tour opening at the Museum of the Goldfields this Saturday 25 May 2019.
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For more than 125 years the Western Australian Museum has applied Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) expertise to identifying and documenting our State’s natural history for the benefit of future generations.
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The Western Australian Museum, on behalf of a broad partnership, has won a prestigious Museums and Galleries National Award for international best practice in research for work on some of Australia’s earliest shipwrecks.
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A spectacular, 50-metres long Chinese dancing dragon created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1999 has been donated to the Western Australian Museum by the Chung Wah Association.
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