Past exhibitions

The Western Australian Museum has a strong touring exhibition program, including exhibitions designed and built by Museum staff and travelling exhibitions from national and international museums and galleries.

When an exhibition finishes you can find the online resources associated with that exhibition here.

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    Four local ‘recycle’ artists prove simple objects like rope and cardboard can be transformed into works of art in the Western Australian Museum - Geraldton’s community installation, Reclaim:Regain.

    The exhibition curated by Marina Baker, complements the Museum’s World of RE school holiday program and overlaps with the final days of Climate Change: Our Future, Our Choice developed by the Australian Museum in partnership with Scitech.

    Featured artists are Eggy Arthurs, aka ‘The Ropeman’, Chantelle Prince, Chris Bolton and Rose Holdaway.

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    Climate change: our future, our choice,’ will take you on an inspiring journey through two possible future worlds - one in which we have done nothing to combat climate change and one in which we have taken positive action to save the planet.

    The interactive exhibition – developed over the past year by Australian Museum scientists and experts – puts the future in your hands as you take a surprising trip through these worlds of possibilities and discover what must be done to ensure or prevent our environmental fate.

  • Image copyright of Martin Parr

    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    FotoFreo is a month long biennial festival of photography that showcases the work of Australian photographers alongside leading photographers from Asia, Europe and North America

    The Festival consists of exhibitions, projections, portfolio reviews, workshops, film screenings (about photography) and a program of discussions about the work exhibited and other issues relating to photography.

    At the Western Australian Museum – Maritime, two exhibitions will be on display:

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    A partnership with the Western Australian Museum - Albany & Uthando Project Inc.

    An exhibition developed by the Children of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa:
    Stories of Childhood from Multicultural Australians for the Uthando Project.

  • Image copyright of Edward Burtynsky

    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    This exhibition is a spectacular photographic showcase of photos of the landscape at several mining sites in Western Australia. The exhibition contains 28 images of minescapes taken from both the air and at ground level. The photographs are displayed as large-scale chromogenic prints showing the details of the landscape and the mines.

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    11 February - 5 March 2012.
    Free exhibition

    For the tenth Great Southern Festival MIX Artists present ten(T), an exhibition featuring diverse works of sculpture, installation, textile, photography and mixed media art.

    In ten(T), Albany contemporary artists interrogate the layers of meaning within this seemingly simply word, resulting in a fascinating exploration of personal memories, local history and universal concepts.

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 1 years ago

    Immerse will plunge the visitor into an alien environment and experience what it's like to explore and work below the ocean.

    Immerse will focus on technological innovations, illustrating the challenges, ingenuity and opportunities the underwater industry brings to the broader community. It aims to inspire young people to explore technical, subsea and marine related subjects as future careers by showcasing the offshore industry and research organisations in Western Australia.

  • Image copyright of Laurel Nannup

    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 2 years ago

    The Pinjarra Massacre Memorial exhibition shows how the arts can break boundaries and a small town's history can reach a large audience. This project has come about as Nyungar people have no outlet to share this story.

    Through research over many years, extensive information has been accumulated about the massacre of the Bindjareb Nyungars at the hands of a group led by Governor James Stirling in October 1834 in the small WA town of Pinjarra.

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    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 2 months ago

    The Western Australia Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time, to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in October 2011.

    The exhibition will be filled with some of the British Museum’s most important objects, rarely lent to other museums, representing many of the 54 Commonwealth countries. Individually and collectively they tell extraordinary stories about the world's people, who we are and where we've come from – taking visitors on a 1.8 million year journey around the world.

  • Image copyright of Michael Seebeck

    0 Temporary Exhibition | Updated 9 months ago

    ANZANG is focused on the unique natural heritage of the bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the New Guinea region.

    The annual photography competition highlights this unique area by encouraging conservation and protection of the region's native flora and fauna.

    Presented by the South Australian Museum

    SA Museum

Past exhibitions