Planning your visit doesn’t have to be as complicated as preparing an army for the afterlife. Here are our top insider tips to make the most of your time at this world-exclusive exhibition.
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The WA Maritime Museum is honoured to be recognised as the Major Tourist Attraction for 2025 at the Fremantle Business Awards, presented by the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce.
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Stuart is a PhD student from The University of Western Australia with a passion for carabid beetles — those speedy, ground-dwelling insects that scurry across the Pilbara and still hold plenty of secrets. His research is all about uncovering new species, mapping where they live, and figuring out how land use affects them. He’s even diving into how these beetles “talk” to each other using sound — a quirky behaviour that scientists are only just beginning to understand.
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As part of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours, former WA Museum Curator of Crustacea, Dr Raymond W. George, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to science and to the community of Albany.
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A delicate shelled necklace arrived at the Western Australian Museum in 2013 as part of the Cook Collection, but it brought more questions than answers.
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From Japan to the Pilbara, a kimono and its accessories tell a tale of friendship and cultural exchange in WA’s far north in the 1930s.
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Planning your visit doesn’t have to be as complicated as preparing an army for the afterlife. Here are our top insider tips to make the most of your time at this world-exclusive exhibition.
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A team of marine biologists and maritime archaeologists from the Western Australian Museum are celebrating a host of new discoveries, following a recent expedition to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands.
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Artist Chelsea Hopkins-Allan draws inspiration from microscopic museum specimens to highlight the hidden beauty and vital role of often-overlooked species like moths.
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We're thrilled that Barry Bellotti, Regional Manager Business and Strategy at Gwoonwardu Mia, has been named a finalist in the Individual Excellence in Aboriginal Tourism category in the 2025 Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards for Individual Excellence.
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A new exhibition opening at the Museum of the Goldfields explores the deep relationship between Aboriginal languages, identity and Country through sound, image and storytelling.
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The Western Australian Museum, Curtin University HIVE, and the State Library of Western Australia are developing a new exhibition opening later this year at the Museum of the Great Southern— and they are calling on the public for help.
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Join the WA Maritime Museum Choir for National Reconciliation Week 2025
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Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor brings more than 225 artefacts from the Qin and Han dynasties to WA Museum Boola Bardip from 28 June 2025.
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Ancient Egypt: Secrets of the Museum Collection opens at the Museum of Geraldton on Friday 4 April, inviting visitors of all ages to explore the stories behind a selection of intriguing objects from the Western Australian Museum’s collection.
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WA Museum Boola Bardip has been awarded Bronze in the Major Tourist Attraction category at the 2024 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.
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Museum of the Great Southern is sounding the call for more volunteers to help crew the Brig Amity, Albany’s much loved replica ship.
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The Western Australian Museum, Fortescue, and the Foundation for the WA Museum have announced a three-year research partnership aimed at enhancing knowledge and understanding of biodiversity in the Fortescue Marsh and surrounding areas, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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See the largest collection of works by Spinifex Artists ever exhibited together.
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