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From ship to shore: WA Museum streams live from real-world ocean expedition
Visitors to WA Museum Boola Bardip will have a unique opportunity to step from exhibition to expedition on Saturday 18 July 2026 at 14:00 hours!  This is when WA Museum scientists aboard the research vessel R/V OceanXplorer will broadcast live to the Museum while the vessel is undertaking a major deep-sea research expedition in the eastern Indian Ocean.

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A group of female AFL players mid game, with two jumping high for a ball.

Collecting the rise of women’s sport
Women in sport have been breaking tackles, records and expectations for decades, but many of the stories and treasured items from their histories have been missing from the WA Museum’s collection.
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Pioneering the Rottnest Channel Swim
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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Vintage photograph of a woman in a white wedding dress standing with a man in a suit.

Caterina Vallesi's Wedding
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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WA photographer snaps two ANZANG awards

The 2014 Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year collection is now open at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton, with winning photographs in two of the 14 categories taken by WA photographer Keith Lightbody.

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WA Museum – Geraldton acting Regional Manager Leigh O’Brien sitting next to Community Advisory Committee chair Malcolm Smith and WA Museum – Geraldton Senior Projects Officer Catherine Belcher

Make a difference to your Museum

The Western Australian Museum – Geraldton is looking for community members to join its Community Advisory Committee.

Nominations for two voluntary community representative positions are now open.

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Celebrate WA Day at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Relax with family and friends this WA Day and discover more about the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

A festival event on the Museum grounds will have a range of free activities for all ages including art, craft, balloon animals, and live music and dance performances.

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An orange balloon with Celebrate WA written on it

Celebrate WA Day at the WA Museum – Geraldton

Relax with family and friends this WA Day and discover more about the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton.

A festival event on the Museum grounds will have a range of free activities for all ages, including art, craft, face painting, and live music and performances.

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Compelling WA press photography on display

The work of WA’s most exciting news photographers has been captured in the 2015 WA Press Photographer of the Year exhibition, currently on display at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.

WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the Museum is delighted to host this year’s exhibition.

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Scientists check pit and funnel traps in a shrubby landscape

Wildlife of the Pilbara

The Western Australian Museum Terrestrial Zoology team recently ran a field trip to Karijini and Millstream-Chichester national parks in the Pilbara, to collect tissue samples for the Molecular Systematics Unit’s Conservation Genetics of the Pilbara Fauna Project, funded by the Net Conservation B

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New images confirm the fate of HMAS Sydney (II)

An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran has produced new photographic evidence which appears to confirm why Sydney was so quickly disabled, leading to catastrophic damage and the devastating los

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Mission to document our worst naval tragedy

An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and her nemesis HSK Kormoran using the latest high-resolution imaging technology has begun.  Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said this was a very important expedition to one of the

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A postcard from Jack Bonney to Eliza ‘Lida’ Jane Downey

One Hundred Postcards from WWI front line

An extraordinary collection of postcards sent to a Boulder woman from men serving on the front line of World War One will go on display at the Western Australian Museum – Perth, in time for Anzac Day.

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