MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 4 months ago
Love means a lot of very different things to different people.
As the Museum hosts the Unveiled: 200 years of wedding glamour exhibition, we thought it would be interesting (and fun) to ask you, our visitors, what love and marriage means to you.
This blog will each week showcase some of the responses that our visitors have written on the five chalkboards around the Museum. The chalkboards ask...
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 5 months ago
The WA Maritime Museum transformed into Antarctica for the very cool official launch of Traversing Antarctica: the Australian experience last night.
Guests were greeted by the adorable huskies from the Western Australian Sleddog Sports Association (yes – I didn’t know we had one either!?) and snow, and entertained as a block of ice became an impressive Emperor Penguin by the end of the night. Here are a few behind the scenes snaps:
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 1 years ago
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 2 years ago
Aimee Smith transforms the Western Australian Museum into a living environment of dancing bodies. This trailer has been produced to give a taster her upcoming exhibition.
Accidental Monsters of Meaning is showing at the Western Australian Museum – Perth from 25 March to 3 April 2011, 10am to 2pm weekdays and 12pm – 4pm on weekends.
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 3 years ago
The exhibition department always get to work on the cool stuff in the museum. After A Day in Pompeii exhibition closed to the public it was time for us to break it down. That included working with conservators and registrars to pack up and crate the objects ready for Singapore.
- A Day in Pompeii
- Image from WA Museum
- Image copyright of WA Museum
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 3 years ago
One of our best kept secrets lies under the WA Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder site. The recently refurbished gold vault provides the first glimpse of things to come with the redevelopment of the mezzanine area due to open early December 2010. Once again our talented exhibition designers used a mixture of application programs to design the layout and graphics for the fit-out. The objects were carefully propped in a secret location by the amazing Shaun Chambers after a new lighting system was installed to enhance the display.
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 3 years ago
The Exhibition Design team use some very expensive state-of-the-art software to design exhibitions on the OS X platform. One application called Google Sketchup© is a free download that everyone can use. We recommend downloading the software and drawing up your house. We have drawn up the Perth Museum in three dimensions using this software and you can see it on Google Earth©. This movie shows the layout of the ACDC: Australia’s Family Jewels exhibition that opened in Melbourne last year.
MuseumExhibitions blog | Updated 3 years ago
This video shows the WA Museum's exhibition and design installation team setting-up Nick Cave - the exhibition which showed at the Western Australian Museum - Perth from May 23 - July 19 2009. The Victorian Art Centre curated and designed this exhibition. This video is a time lapse recording with one frame taken every 72 seconds over a five day period.
This film was recorded in late May 2009 by the talented and famous Julian Featherston of Two Feathers.
