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Deep in the mangroves of Exmouth Gulf, scientists have identified a new species of crab: Parasesarma otiense.
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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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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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Touring exhibition War at Sea – the Navy in WWI opens at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle on 12 March.
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A new exhibition, Without Consent: Australia’s past adoption practices, opens at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Friday 26 February.
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Visitors to the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton will have the opportunity to view the Australian War Memorial’s extraordinary travelling exhibition Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt from 27 February 2016.
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Two new species of extinct kangaroos that could be the ancestors of all modern kangaroos and wallabies in Australia, have been discovered by a team of scientists from the Western Australian Museum, the University of Queensland, and the University of New South Wales.
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- $1.6 million allocated for public art at the new museum
- Public art to reflect and interpret the stories of Western Australia
- Artist teams to develop either a single work or multiple works
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Four new species of Xenoturbella have been discovered living in the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean by a team of scientists from the Western Australian Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium & Research Institute in the United States.
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Fremantle will add another string to its creative bow when the WA Maritime Museum opens its doors to live music and sunset bars from Sunday 31 January.
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Dinosaurs will roam the WA Museum – Perth this summer as the Museum welcomes back Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo performances from 4 January, 2016.
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Experience Leonardo da Vinci’s genius first-hand when Da Vinci Machines opens at the Western Australian Maritime Museum on Saturday 19 December.
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Visitors to the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder now have the opportunity to view the Australian War Memorial’s extraordinary travelling exhibition Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt.
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The 2015 Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year collection will open at the Western Australian Museum – Albany this weekend, with Western Australian photographers winning two of the categories.
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Touring exhibition Indigenous Australians at war from the Boer War to the present is now on display the Western Australian Museum – Perth tomorrow.
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