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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Featuring more than 225 exceptional Chinese artefacts, including the warriors, the exhibition introduced Western Australian audiences to the life, legacy and afterlife of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shihuang.
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the Albany Then & Now Photography Competition which closed last Sunday, 7 June. Congratulations to everyone who entered the competition, it was a pleasure to review all the creativity and talent from across the region.
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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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Michael Malaxos Tsolakis OAM was just 16 when he left Kastellorizo, one of Greece’s easternmost Mediterranean islands, to begin a new life in Western Australia.
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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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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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The incredible story of 270 Australian commandos who defied all odds to hold down more than 10,000 Japanese troops in East Timor during a critical point of World War II will be told at the Western Australian Museum – Albany from February 14.
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The country’s history of incarceration and convicts will be on display in two simultaneous exhibitions at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie from February 6.
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The Fresnel lens from one of the State’s oldest working lighthouses, Geraldton’s 135-year-old Point Moore Lighthouse, will go on permanent display at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton from December 20.
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The Western Australian Museum will bring to life the extraordinary dinosaurs of the Earth’s Cretaceous period in a spine-tingling, custom-made exhibition featuring more than 20 life-size animatronic models.
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The Western Australian Museum tour of The Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition will kick off in Albany on December 6.
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Twenty-five brand new bugs from Barrow Island and neighbouring areas of WA's northwest have been described in the latest Records of the Western Australian Museum.
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The global effects of unprecedented indigenous language loss will be discussed in two public lectures at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton on November 21 and 22.
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An exhibition celebrating the culture and country of the Badimaya people of Mount Magnet will go on display at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton from November 15.
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A $50,000 Lotterywest grant will help the Friends of the Western Australian Museum develop a project to bring the story of HMAS Sydney (II) and HSK Kormoran to a wider audience.
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Arguably Western Australia’s most successful designer, Aurelio Costarella has enjoyed a glittering career spanning 30 years.
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Two exhibitions celebrating the best of creativity and innovation in Australian fashion will open to the public at the Western Australian Museum – Perth tomorrow.
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The Western Australian Museum’s famous De Vlamingh Plate will travel to the Nation’s capital next month to take part in the National Library of Australia’s Mapping our World exhibition.
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