The Explore, or Featured Content section of the Western Australian Museum website features all our blogs, videos, photo galleries and online exhibitions, as well as information about our education services and kids content.
On this page, we have presented a stream of all the latest videos, photos and blog posts added to the site.
This video explores are some of the amazing adaptations crabs have undergone in the Kimberley reefs.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
This video features the marine sponge, an animal with powerful compounds that could have some substantial benefits in medical research.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
In this Kimberley diary, Clay Bryce explores the diversity and beauty of the oft-misunderstood cone shell.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
In this video Dr Glenn Moore looks at the adaptations that the stonefish makes to survive in the reef environment.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
In this Kimberley diary the team go to dive at Colbert Island but find a huge saltwater crocodile swimming just off the boat.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
This video diary features an interview with the skipper of the Kimberley Quest, the boat used for the research expedition
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
In this video, Andrew Hosie talks about the Ribbon Worm, an unusual and fascinating creature in that features in the Kimberley reef ecosystem.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
This video shows underwater footage of an amazing reef dive and the fantastic diversity that exists on the coral reef.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
This video shows us some of the amazing sea stars that ben found in the waters of the Kimberley, including the beautiful Pin Cushion sea star.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
This video diary details the life of flying fish, explaining how these tiny fish are excellent at flying and jumping out of the water.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
The first dive of the 2012 research trip reveals a treasure-trove of sea shells, molluscs and other animals from a sand ridge that was initially not expected to reveal much at all.
These video diaries document the October 2012 field trip into remote areas of the Kimberley. This field trip was part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project to study and understand the marine biodiversity of the area.
Today we received a gorgeous letter from Mrs Edna Giles who attended the Unveiled exhibition with the Embroiders Guild of WA. Mrs Giles sent in a copy of her own wedding photo from 1956, featuring the gown she designed and made, and that is remarkably like Catherine Middleton's gown, when she wed Prince William.
As proud Western Australians, to start off in 2013 we will be highlighting a group of very special fishes – endemic species – those found only in Western Australia. This is the first of those.
We’ve been doing a lot of work creating some interesting application with our collection data and presenting them online. Most of the work is currently under development, but there will be a public interface in the not-too-distant future (keep following this blog for more details).
But at this junction, I thought it would be appropriate to share our 10 favourite Drupal modules that we’ve been using to import and manipulate large streams of data records.
Without collectors and carers, there would be no Museum collections or displays. Dr Butler describes some methods he used for field collection and the post collection processes.
Today at the Museum we had a very special visit from a young girl who loves weddings.
Sophia (3) came to the Unveiled exhibition dressed in her bride's dress which was made by her Nanna. Sophia was visiting the exhibition with her mum, Nanna and friends, and was very excited to see the beautiful wedding gowns on display from the V&A.
Sophia 's mum told us that she loves weddings and she was able to stay up late to watch the wedding of Catherine and William.
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...
