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Revealed – Western Australia’s largest Aboriginal art market and exhibition – returns to Boorloo/Perth in April 2026, presented by the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA) in partnership with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and WA Museum Boola Bardip.
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While the Terracotta Warriors prepare for their journey home to China, one lucky visitor is getting ready to follow them!
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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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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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Children are invited to release their inner aquanaut and explore the mysteries of the deep in an exciting new adventure-land Voyage to the Deep: Underwater Adventures opening at the WA Maritime Museum on 27 May.
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A marine worm that looked so much like a delicious fried pastry that it was named after one by a research scientist at the Western Australian Museum, has been named as one of the Top 10 New Species for 2017.
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Premier Mark McGowan and Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman recently turned the first sod at the site of the New Museum before the dramatic removal of the former foyer.
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The Western Australian Museum has won two prestigious awards at the Museums and Galleries National Awards 2017 (MAGNA) held in Brisbane last night, for two outstanding exhibitions developed and co-curated by the Museum.
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Western Australian Museum visitors will be taken on a wild adventure by contemporary Aboriginal theatre performances when Boodjar Kaatijin tours regional Western Australia.
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The extraordinary I Am Heath Ledger documentary premieres in Perth on 9 May at Luna Palace Cinema in Leederville, preluding the much anticipated exhibition about the life of the internationally renowned Perth-born star, Heath Ledger: A Life in Pictures.
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A new genus and species of clingfish has been discovered on the shelves of the Western Australian Museum’s Harry Butler Research Centre.
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The finalists’ and winners’ entries for the 2016 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition will go on display at the Museum of the Great Southern next weekend.
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An exhibition featuring historic objects made by Albany’s Menang people nearly 200 years ago will soon return to the British Museum after being on display temporarily at the Museum of the Great Southern.
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The Western Australian Museum welcomes the recent sighting of one of Australia’s rarest birds, the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), by a group of bird enthusiasts in Broome.
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The oldest surviving car of Western Australian provenance will return to York for the first time in 115 years.
The Benz, on loan from the Western Australian Museum, will go on display at the York Motor Museum from Wednesday, 15 March 2017.
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A new exhibition that brings to life one man’s remarkable journey to share his people’s culture with the world is going on display at the Museum of Geraldton from this weekend.
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