Terracotta Warriors: Legacy of the First Emperor brings more than 225 artefacts from the Qin and Han dynasties to WA Museum Boola Bardip from 28 June 2025.
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Artist Chelsea Hopkins-Allan draws inspiration from microscopic museum specimens to highlight the hidden beauty and vital role of often-overlooked species like moths.
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We're thrilled that Barry Bellotti, Regional Manager Business and Strategy at Gwoonwardu Mia, has been named a finalist in the Individual Excellence in Aboriginal Tourism category in the 2025 Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards for Individual Excellence.
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Join the WA Maritime Museum Choir for National Reconciliation Week 2025
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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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- Opening of new facility a significant milestone for WA Museum
- $1.6million provided by Rio Tinto Iron Ore in 2010 for development of lab
- Research projects include discovery and characterisation of new species
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- Final week of unique Extraordinary Stories exhibition at the WA Museum – Perth
- Start of five year partnership with the British Museum
- Exhibition is free admission
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The Albany Welcome Walls was opened on 12 December 2010. Over 1000 guests watched the Hon. Robyn McSweeney unveil the plaque and inaugurate the jetty which commemorates the arrival of almost 500 people to the port of Albany since 1826
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On February 20, this year, WA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of a very significant event. On that day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft.
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Acclaimed Performing Lines WA writer and director Sally Richardson has brought together an extraordinary artwork program to engage Western Australian Museum visitors with professional artists.
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The Western Australian Museum Geraldton, along with Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (NACC) and Pollinators Inc, are holding a public morning tea at the Museum on Tuesday 17 January, 2012 to celebrate the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
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The Western Australian Museum – Geraldton welcomed its 500,000th visitor through its doors this morning, a major milestone since its new building opened to the public in August 2001.
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The Western Australian Museum is pleased and proud to be the venue to host the Perth Festival’s new outdoor summer concert program, Festival Gardens.
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Dr WH (Harry) Butler CME CitWA was awarded the prestigious Lewis G Weeks Gold Medal at the APPEA conference held in Perth in 2011.
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To celebrate the first day of the summer school holidays the WA Museum’s resident reptile expert will display a live, newly described skink species in the WA Museum’s Discovery Centre, Perth on Thursday 15 December at 9.30am.
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Climate Change: Our Future, Our Choice has been unveiled as the new temporary exhibition at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton.
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A stunning collection of photographs by internationally acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky will be on display at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder from tomorrow.
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