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Nominations are now open for the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, and we need your support to nominate the WA Maritime Museum for the Tourist Attraction category.  

Dust can be a nuisance on Earth, but beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a real nightmare.

Prepare to be amazed this National Science Week as the Museum of the Goldfields bands together with other exciting organisations in the Goldfields region to ignite your curiosity with Science After Dark on Thursday 15 August from 5pm – 7.30pm.

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

A newly described species of Pilbara land snail has been discovered by WA Museum scientists and named in memory of a beloved family dog.

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.

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.