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Thirteen of Australia’s brightest early-career researchers have been selected to compete in the FameLab Australia 2026 National Final this September!
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After 22 days exploring one of the eastern Indian Ocean’s most ecologically significant High Seas regions, WA Museum scientists have returned from the High Seas: Revealing Roo Rise expedition with specimens and new knowledge that will support deep-sea biodiversity research for years to come.
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As the Commonwealth Games get underway in Glasgow, a new display at WA Museum Boola Bardip is revisiting the year Perth welcomed the competition to Western Australia.
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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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There are probably not a lot of things you can compare it to. Getting 300-odd bones out of storage where they have been carefully catalogued and housed for years is not quite the same as packing up a large house and unpacking all your things in a new home.
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Seadragons are a favourite of aquariums all over the world, but did you know they are a uniquely Australian creature?
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Bandicoots and bilbies are elusive in the fossil record. Not as famous as the koala or the kangaroo, fewer than 25 fossil species have been named.
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The development of WA Museum Boola Bardip was the perfect opportunity to not only go up, but to go down and continue digging around the site.
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A Gija creation story
This online interactive experience of the Gija Creation story ‘Jirraginy joo Goorrarndal: Frog and Brolga’ is an adaptation of the Gija permanent interactive display panel situated in The WA Museum’s Boola Bardip Origins Gallery.
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Western Australian Museum scientist Dr Kenny Travouillon has discovered the new oldest fossil bilby and bandicoot, which were found in central Australia.
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A survey made available by the Council of Australian Museum Directors (CAMD) has found that 78 million visitors attend its 22 museums onsite or online over the past year. These large numbers are in part because museums are some of the most trusted institutions in society.
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A compelling new exhibition using LEGO® bricks plunges enthusiasts into the stories behind eight of the world’s most fascinating shipwrecks.
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Often cloaked in myth, the stories of spies are sometimes stranger than fiction.
Spy: espionage in Australia reveals the personal experiences of secret agents and the curious history of espionage and counter-espionage in Australia, from Federation through to the present day.
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