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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- Highly commended at national Museums Australia awards for The Young Naturalists Club
Public programs developed by WA Museum – Albany demonstrate quality of programs delivered to Great Southern region
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- National Award for AC/DC Australia’s Family Jewels exhibition website
- More than 30,000 people visited the website over three months
- Exhibition itself attracted 78,749 visitors to the WA Museum
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Imagine holding your unforgettable event right in the centre of history’s memory chambers – in one of Western Australia’s iconic Museum sites.
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The Western Australian Maritime Museum played host to a Spouse and Partner Program luncheon, as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) events held in Perth in late October.
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The Western Australian Museum – Perth played host to the Foreign Minister’s Dinner as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) events hosted in Perth in late October.
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Culture and the Arts Minister John Day unveiled a 23.26kg gold nugget which will be on temporary display at the WA Museum’s Kalgoorlie-Boulder site.
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- The Western Australian Museum has won the 2011 Premier’s Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management
- The successful project Exploring the Marine Biodiversity of Northern WA is a partnership between the WA Museum and Woodside Energy Ltd
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A rare species of trapdoor spider has been found by chance in the backyard of a Grass Valley home in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region.
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Join renowned conservationist and naturalist Dr W. H. (Harry) Butler to hear his tales of travels to remote Australia to record his legendary wildlife television series In the Wild.
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To mark the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney (II), the Western Australian Museum - Geraldton will present two special programs from November 16.
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- 23 video clips featuring unique marine life of the Kimberley
- The videos are a day by day account of scientists working in the field
- Scientists have collected six species and one genus believed to be new to science
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Until ground breaking fossil discoveries in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 2008, seeking evidence of fossil sex has been perhaps one of the most difficult endeavours in palaeontology.
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