News | Created 23 Sep 2016
Come and explore the Western Australian Museum’s new Discovery Zone, now open at the State Library of Western Australia in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre.
The new Discovery Zone is an exciting space created especially for the young and the curious. Touch and see objects from across Western Australia and around the world as you learn about dinosaur trackways, meteorites and our amazing night sky.
News | Created 9 Sep 2016
The Western Australian Museum continues its search for a possible fifth Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipwreck, believed to have been lost at the Abrolhos Islands off the Mid West coast around 300 years ago, working alongside celebrated wreck-hunter and author Hugh Edwards.
News | Created 7 Sep 2016
A new exhibition, Without Consent: Australia’s past adoption practices opens at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on Saturday 10 September 2016.
It brings to light a previously hidden aspect of Australia’s past – forced adoptions –and has offered those affected an opportunity to share their experiences, some for the first time.
News | Created 7 Sep 2016
Rough Medicine: Life and Death in the Age of Sail will open at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton on Saturday, 10 September 2016.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the exhibition explores the fascinating history of how illness impacted upon and even shaped early sea voyages from the 17th Century until the advent of the steamship in the late 19th Century.
News | Created 26 Aug 2016
An exhibition encompassing the stories of the first recorded European (Dutch) landing in Western Australia at Shark Bay will be on display at the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre from 27 August.
The Accidental Encounters: the Dutch connection exhibition was developed by the Western Australian Museum in preparation for this year’s 400th anniversary of Dirk Hartog’s landing in Shark Bay.
News | Created 24 Aug 2016
Beachcombers, divers, swimmers and anglers are being asked to help the Western Australian Museum find examples of a very rare marine sponge, Agelas axifera, known only to the Champion Bay area in Geraldton.
The Museum is hoping recent storms in the area might have washed the sponges onto the beach.
WA Museum Head of Aquatic Zoology Dr Jane Fromont said the species was first described in 1911 from the holotype collected at Champion Bay in 1905 – the only known location of Agelas axifera worldwide.
News | Created 23 Aug 2016
Indigenous Australians at war from the Boer War to the present opens at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder this week.
This touring exhibition from the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne presents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ stories from all over Australia, including Western Australia.
WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder Regional Manager Zoe Scott said it is important to acknowledge Aboriginal men and women who served their country during wars.
News | Created 11 Aug 2016
A Western Australian Museum-led study has discovered the oldest fossil remains of a new species of Pig-footed Bandicoot that lived in south west New South Wales between 2.5 and 3 million years ago.
News | Created 31 Jul 2016
Western Australia’s world-class new museum is designed to be a State, national and international drawcard, offering compelling visitor experiences within dramatic architecture that links contemporary and historic buildings.
News | Created 25 Jul 2016
A Western Australian Museum-led study has discovered two new species of extinct kangaroos that lived in ancient Australian rainforests between 24 to 18 million years ago in northern Queensland.
News | Created 8 Jul 2016
A compelling, online, interactive documentary created by the Western Australian Museum and documentary production company Periscope Pictures, together with interactive experience developers Hungry Sky, has won Best Interactive Production at this week’s prestigious WA Screen Awards.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the documentary Beneath the Waves was the culmination of six years of marine biodiversity survey work in the Kimberley and more than a year of digital production design.
News | Created 15 Jun 2016
The Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia are joining forces from July this year, with a space sharing arrangement that will see elements of the Museum’s popular family-based Discovery Centre remain in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre.
From next month, the Museum will open a new Discovery Zone at the State Library while work is carried out to build a New Museum for Western Australia.
The Museum will also operate a combined Library and Museum shop stocking a diverse range of products from both organisations.
News | Created 9 Jun 2016
Touring exhibition War at Sea – the Navy in WWI opens at the Western Australian Museum – Albany this weekend.
Among the stories told is that of Australia’s first submarine AE1 which disappeared while patrolling the seas near present day New Guinea on 14 September 1914. No trace of the vessel or its 35 crew has been found to this day.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said it is important to remember and recognise the contribution and commitment of Australian sailors and submariners in World War One.
News | Created 3 Jun 2016
Rough Medicine: Life and Death in the Age of Sail will open at the WA Maritime Museum on 11 June, 2016.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the exhibition explores the fascinating history of how illness impacted upon and even shaped early sea voyages from the 17th Century until the advent of the steamship in the late 19th Century.
News | Created 2 Jun 2016
Studying the teeth, skulls and skins of almost 100 bandicoots held in museum collections around Australia and in London has led a scientist from the Western Australian Museum to determine that animals previously thought to belong to the same species of Long-nosed Bandicoots are actually two distinctly different species.
News | Created 31 May 2016
From the red desert of Australia to the red carpet of the Perth Concert Hall, a collection of objects showcasing Australia’s ancient history are now on display in the Perth Concert Hall foyer.
The Western Australian Museum has partnered with the Perth Concert Hall to display a selection of objects from its Earth and Planetary Sciences collection while the Museum's Perth site undergoes the biggest redevelopment in its 125-year history.
News | Created 24 May 2016
Celebrate Western Australian yachtsman Jon Sanders’ world record triple circumnavigation of the world at the WA Maritime Museum this week.
Tomorrow, 25 May, marks 30 years since Jon Sanders departed Fremantle in Parry Endeavour, the 14-metre sloop that took him across 131,500 km of ocean and is now on display at the Maritime Museum.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the Museum is proud to have the yacht in its Collection.
News | Created 17 May 2016
The Western Australian Museum – Perth will showcase a large collection of rare artefacts when Battle for Australia: An Untold Story goes on display tomorrow.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the exhibition tells important Australian stories about attacks, loss and sacrifice during World War Two.
News | Created 12 May 2016
A new exhibition, Without Consent: Australia’s past adoption practices, opens at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton on Saturday 14 May 2016.
It brings to light a previously hidden aspect of Australia’s past – forced adoptions –and has offered those affected an opportunity to share their experiences, some for the first time.
WA Museum – Geraldton Regional Manager Catherine Belcher said it is estimated at least 150,000 adoptions took place from the 1950s-1970s and a significant number of them were forced.
News | Created 5 May 2016
The 2015 Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year collection will open at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder this weekend, with Western Australian photographers winning two of the categories.
The competition’s overall winning image ‘Feathered Symmetry’ by David Stowe will be on display. Captured in New South Wales, it shows a white-winged tern (Chlidonias leucopterusI) stretching its wings, ready for take-off.