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 Western Australian Museum’s Harry Butler Lecture Series: In the Wild West will return to Geraldton this month with a lecture celebrating the wonderland that is Western Australia.
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- Artefacts lent to the Shire of Northampton to commemorate 300 year anniversary of the Zuytdorp shipwreck
- Artefacts include rare porcelain and coins
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The Western Australian Museum’s Harry Butler Lecture Series: In the Wild West will return to Albany this June with a lecture to celebrate the centenary of the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
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- Oral histories of child migrants recorded
- Musical piece inspired by stories of child migrants
- Exhibition features photographs, letters and mementoes
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Today, on International Museum Day, the Treasurer and Minister for Culture and the Arts announced the Western Australian State Government’s commitment to build a new museum through allocated funding.
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Join Western Australian Museum Senior Curator Dr Mark Harvey as he presents ‘New Discoveries in the World Around Us’, as part of the Harry Butler Lecture Series: In the Wild West, at the WA Museum – Perth on Tuesday 22 May at 12:30pm.
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The popular ANZANG Nature Photography exhibition will return to the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton for its ninth year this May.
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To mark National Archaeology Week, the WA Museum – Perth will be hosting Dig Deep!, an event celebrating the fascinating work of archaeologists.
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An exhibition celebrating the work of prominent Goldfields photographer John Joseph Dwyer will open at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Saturday 12 May, 2012.
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The Western Australian Museum in partnership with Chevron Australia is proud to announce the third year of The Harry Butler lecture series: In the Wild West.
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- Program will feature incredibly realistic life-sized dinosaur puppets
- Visitors to get up close and personal to a variety of prehistoric creatures
- Show brings entertainment, education and science together
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The Western Australian Museum in partnership with Chevron Australia is proud to announce the third year of The Harry Butler lecture series: In the Wild West will be launched at the WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle on 3 May, from 6.00pm.
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