The Western Australian Museum is now seeking expressions of interest from Western Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples to join its Aboriginal Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee provides advice, support and guidance to the Museum, particularly on those matters relating to the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples.
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WA Museum Boola Bardip has been awarded Bronze in the Major Tourist Attraction category at the 2024 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.
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The Western Australian Museum, Fortescue, and the Foundation for the WA Museum have announced a three-year research partnership aimed at enhancing knowledge and understanding of biodiversity in the Fortescue Marsh and surrounding areas, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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The Western Australian Museum is now seeking expressions of interest from Western Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples to join its Aboriginal Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee provides advice, support and guidance to the Museum, particularly on those matters relating to the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples.
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From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970 is a travelling exhibition that opens at Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Saturday 28 May at 5.30pm.
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WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder and WA Police have teamed up to present a program of three talks about the murder, mystery and intrigue of policing the Goldfields on Sunday 29 May.
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Charles Broadhurst was one of Western Australia’s earliest colourful and controversial entrepreneurs, involved in the State’s early pearling, shipping and pastoral industries.
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The hidden world of some of the tiniest creatures in the Kimberley will come to life in a captivating collection of macro photography on show at the WA Museum – Maritime, Fremantle, until July 28 2011.
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Public lecture: WA Museum – Albany
More than one third of all Western Australians were born overseas, arriving in Western Australia from 1829 onwards as migrants, child migrants, displaced persons, asylum seekers and refugees.
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Western Australia has been short listed to host the international Square Kilometre Array project, or SKA, which is set to transform our understanding of the origins and evolution of the universe and explore fundamental questions in contemporary science.
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Western Australia has been short listed to host the international Square Kilometre Array project, or SKA, which is set to transform our understanding of the origins and evolution of the universe and explore fundamental questions in contemporary science.
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X|Media|Lab is an international thinktank that the WA Museum will be heavily involved in participating and promoting.
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Before you visit, please note the following!
So that all our staff can take part in important planning meetings and staff development events, some of our sites will be closed for half a day during March and April.
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An agreement signed almost four decades ago between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Australia has resulted in Western Australia receiving a priceless collection of historic artefacts from four 17th and 18th century ships wrecked off the State's coast.
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The Western Australian Museum opened two very different exhibitions on Valentine’s Day.
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The 151,400-tonne passenger ship Queen Mary 2 sails into Fremantle on Thursday morning 17 February 2011 at approximately 11.30am, and will be departing around 7.00pm that day.
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