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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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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As part of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours, former WA Museum Curator of Crustacea, Dr Raymond W. George, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to science and to the community of Albany.
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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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Just ten days remain to see the awe-inspiring Traversing Antarctica: The Australian Experience exhibition at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle before it closes on Sunday, February 24.
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- 22 video clips featuring unique marine life of the Kimberley
- Videos are a day-by-day account of scientists working in the field
- Eight-year project has so far discovered 79 new species and genera
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The Western Australian Museum – Geraldton will welcome new regional manager Leigh O’Brien this week as Catherine Belcher takes maternity leave from Friday, 1 February.
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The iconic images of one of Australia's most renowned photographers, Max Dupain, will be exhibited at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder from January 18.
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The Western Australian Museum sites are open through-out the Christmas period, excluding Christmas and Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day.
From all us at the Western Australian Museum we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
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If you’re looking for a fabulous Christmas gift idea for friends and family, why not purchase a gift voucher for two for high tea and entry to this summer's most fashionable exhibition, Unveiled: 200 years of wedding glamour!
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The annual ANZANG Nature Photography exhibition will begin its tour of Western Australia at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on December 7.
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The Western Australian Museum – Albany will celebrate one of their hardest working volunteers on International Volunteers Day on Wednesday, December 5.
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To celebrate the Western Australian Maritime Museum’s 10th anniversary tomorrow, December 1, the WA Museum is inviting members of the public to share their favourite maritime memories online.
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The Western Australian Maritime Museum will celebrate its 10th birthday on Saturday December 1 with an open day.
Museum entry will be by gold-coin donation, with free kids activities on offer and a program of short talks by Museum curators through-out the day.
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This gallery showcases some works of Laurel Nannup which are on show for the exhibition A Story to Tell, presented ART ON THE MOVE and on show from 1 November 2012 to 31 January 2013 at the Western Australian Museum – Perth.
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