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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Researchers from the Western Australian Museum and The University of Western Australian have discovered 13 new species of the elusive ‘spricket’ in Australia’s north-west, a creature that looks like a cross between a spider and a cricket and is only around 3mm long and 0.5mm wide.
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The names we give to places express their significance, history and identity.
Throughout Western Australia, Aboriginal peoples remain deeply connected to their Country.
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For more than 66 years the wrecks of two ships destroyed in what is still Australia’s worst ever naval disaster sat silently on the ocean floor, their location a mystery.
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The Foundation for the WA Museum and Channel 7 are giving you a chance to win a once in a lifetime Broome adventure worth up to $40,000!
You and a friend could win return flights to Broome, a five-night luxury adventure aboard True North AND five nights at Cable Beach Club.
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The world’s tiniest and least known shells can look like something from a fairy tale!
Western Australian Museum scientists discovered at least 26 new species of these exquisite marine animals off the Kimberley coast.
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To mark World Oceans Day, renowned Western Australian Museum scientist 90-year-old Loisette Marsh launched her magnum opus – Field Guide to the Seastars of Australia.
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All Western Australian Museum sites will reopen to visitors on Saturday, 6 June.
We cannot wait to welcome people back to our sites, and we can assure everyone that the health and well-being of our visitors, staff, volunteers and contractors is our single most important priority.
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Nine new species of pseudoscorpions have been described by Western Australian Museum scientists.
Previously there were 26 species of the Garypus pseudoscorpion known to science, and, of those, only a few came from the Indo-West Pacific region.
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One of the greatest animal migrations on the planet takes place along the Western Australian coast every year. From the Kimberley’s Camden Sound to the freezing waters of Antarctica, this 6,500km route is taken by some of the largest animals on Earth, Humpback Whales.
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The unique creatures of the Ningaloo Canyons will be studied and catalogued by researchers from the Western Australian Museum in an expedition to the largely unexplored deep sea environment.
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Cape Range National Park near Exmouth was once a feeding ground for some of the largest prehistoric predators that ever lived in Earth’s oceans.
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Western Australia’s iconic and much-loved blue whale is back, ready for the New Museum opening in November 2020!
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