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 2012 Harry Butler Lecture Series: In the Wild West will conclude with an explanation of why museums are more important to us now than ever before at the Western Australian Maritime Museum on Thursday 29 November.
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Celebrate the centenary of the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder on November 21, 2012.
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The surprising relationship between dainty neighbourhood ducks and the terrifying T-Rex will be revealed at the Western Australian Museum - Perth on November 23, 2012.
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Albany audiences will receive a rare insight into the life of one of Australia’s most celebrated conservationists in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on November 15 and 16, 2012.
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Joint media release:
- Senator the Hon. Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs
- The Hon Simon Crean MP, Minister for the Arts
1 November 2012
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The secret world of seahorses will be revealed in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum - Geraldton on November 15 and 16, 2012.
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Celebrate the centenary of the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle on November 9, 2012.
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One hundred years ago the 1911 - 1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), famously led by Sir Douglas Mawson, spent many cold months exploring the enigmatic and deadly continent of Antarctica.
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A selection of the Goldfields’ oldest engines will be on display at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder from 27 October, 2012.
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Explore the colourful mineral world beneath the Earth’s surface in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum – Perth on October 26, 2012.
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Celebrate the centenary of the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum - Geraldton on October 25 and 26, 2012.
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The iconic images of one of Australia’s most renowned photographers, Max Dupain, are now on display at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton.
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