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The West Australian Museum’s Anthropology Department has a focus on documenting the social and cultural vibrancy of our state. While a number of our collections represent WA Aboriginal cultures, we also collect items of significance from around the world!
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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
Newly commissioned digital artworks from Western Australian Aboriginal artists and content producers are front and centre at WA Museum Boola Bardip as part of the Museum’s public art program.
A newly described species of Pilbara land snail has been discovered by WA Museum scientists and named in memory of a beloved family dog.
The Museum of Geraldton is thrilled to announce its latest exhibition, Pila Nguru: Art and Song from the Spinifex People, on display until 10 November.
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.
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For your adventure to the Moon, we recommend familiarising yourself with (the) space before liftoff. Please see a Visual Story and Sensory Map for your exploration.
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.
The Museum of the Great Southern welcomes Western Australian interdisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eeckens and her Tributaries exhibition.
As our Australian Olympians prepare to head to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, we are celebrating our own gold medal!