As the Commonwealth Games get underway in Glasgow, a new display at WA Museum Boola Bardip is revisiting the year Perth welcomed the competition to Western Australia.
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As the Commonwealth Games get underway in Glasgow, a new display at WA Museum Boola Bardip is revisiting the year Perth welcomed the competition to Western Australia.
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Meet the scientists exploring one of the most remote and least understand regions of the ocean aboard the R/V OceanXplorer.
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Life in the Great Barrier Reef has arrived at the WA Maritime Museum, with sessions available until 8 November 2026.
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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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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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The Western Australian Museum has appointed a new director to head its Foundation.
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