News and stories

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.

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

A newly described species of Pilbara land snail has been discovered by WA Museum scientists and named in memory of a beloved family dog.

We are delighted to welcome Leanne Woods as our new Senior Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisor.

The Western Australian Museum is celebrating three 2024 Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice Awards for museums in Fremantle and Kalgoorlie.

Every now and again palaeontologists come across a fossil so weird it takes decades of detective work to finally understand its relationship to other organisms. The 275-million-year-old Helicoprion is one of these enigmas.

When late-night eatery Bernies opened in 1939, it quickly became a popular Perth nightspot.   Owner Bernard Hardwick began by serving ‘finger meals’, including crayfish rolls, from caravans parked along Mounts Bay Road.

As our Australian Olympians prepare to head to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, we are celebrating our own gold medal! 

Blue skies, big crowds, smiling faces and people from diverse places thronged together at the WA Day 2024 celebrations on the June 3 2024 at the Museum of Geraldton, Museum of the Great Southern, Museum of the Goldfields and Gwoonwardu Mia.

Diving up to 100m into the Indian Ocean west of Perth, a team of elite technical divers are uncovering and identifying shipwrecks in conjunction with the Western Australian Museum. Some of these shipwrecks have been at the bottom of the sea for more than 100 years.

WA Day unites all people young and old, from all ethnicities and cultures, who have made Western Australia such an incredible and unique place to live.  It’s a day where we acknowledge the histories, diverse cultures and contributions made by all people who proudly call Western Australia hom