18 Sep 2024WA Museum Boola Bardip 2024 Tourism Awards FinalistThe WA Museum’s flagship site, Boola Bardip, has been named as a finalist in the 2024 Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards. Following the Museum’s outstanding success in 2023 winning both the Major Tourist Attraction and Cultural Tourism categories, the WA Museum has nominated again for both categories. Since reopening to the public in November 2020, the WA Museum Boola Bardip has fearlessly shared diverse narratives, promoting cultural understanding and creating an inclusive and accessible visitor experience.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
17 Sep 2024We made it to the finals - vote now to help us win!Thanks to all who voted for the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle/ Walyalup in this year’s Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. We made it to the finals in both the Tourist Attraction and Hall of Fame categories. Now, we need your help to make us a winner in both categories! It’s quick and easy - just click on these links: Tourist Attraction: https://forms.gle/6jotkJTvL83Yskd1A Hall of Fame: https://forms.gle/N4UT9Z116PDhYrHX7Read more News Flora Perrella
12 Sep 2024Museum in a Container a Hit at the Chapman Valley Show!On 31 August, Museum in a Container and its latest exhibition Camels and Cameleers headed to the Chapman Valley Show, captivating visitors with stories from WA's past. After travelling 500km from Welshpool, the container rolled into the Nanson Showgrounds in the scenic Chapman Valley. Attendees were invited to explore the diverse and often overlooked history of cameleers and camels in the development of WA's goldfields.Read more News Jasmine Eales
23 Aug 2024Foundation grant to support two pioneering WA Museum projects The Foundation for the WA Museum’s second strategic annual grant to the WA Museum will go towards two multi-year projects. The WA Museum has allocated the grant funding to a project addressing the demand for digital access to the WA Museum collections, and to a project focused on the Museum of the Great Southern. Read more News Ella Winterbottom
23 Aug 2024Boola Bardip hosts women from Boronia Pre-Release Centre for NAIDOC Week cultural visit The Western Australian Museum has partnered with the Department of Justice to welcome a group of women from the Yirra Djinda Program that is run at the Boronia Pre-Release Centre for Women. Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
21 Aug 2024Calling all WA Maritime Museum lovers, we need your vote! Nominations are now open for the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, and we need your support to nominate the WA Maritime Museum for the Tourist Attraction category. Nominations for the business awards are by public vote only. It is only through your support that we can get nominated! Nominations are quick and easy, and close on 12noon Wednesday 11 September – please vote here.Read more News Flora Perrella
21 Aug 2024Earliest known wreck in Swan River The WA Museum has confirmed that a shipwreck found in the Swan River in September 2023, is that of a barge owned by Mr Dearden, lost in 1882 whilst carrying limestone from Fremantle to Perth. Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
15 Aug 2024Houston, we’ve got a dust problem. Meet the WA scientist who took on NASA’s lunar dust dilemmaDust can be a nuisance on Earth, but beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a real nightmare. As the world was eagerly awaiting the first landing by humans on the Moon, nobody could predict what those first astronauts would encounter. It turned out that one of their biggest challenges would come in the form of the fine grey dust coating the lunar surface. Extremely fine and razor sharp like glass, lunar dust clings to everything it touches and is now known to clog mechanisms, interfere with instruments, cause radiators to overheat and even tear up spacesuits.Read more News Ella Winterbottom
9 Aug 2024Saving the world at the WA MuseumVisitors to the Western Australian Museum’s seven museums will be familiar with our collections: massive meteorites in Boola Bardip; the America’s Cup-winning winged keel in the WA Maritime Museum; sub-sea technology that revealed the subjects for the Shipwrecks Museum; the fish drawings of Robert Neill in the Museum of the Great Southern; extraordinary gold specimens in the Museum of the Goldfields; rare fossil sharks in the Museum of Geraldton; and beguiling burrowing bees in Carnarvon.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
9 Aug 2024National Science Week. WA Museum’s hunt for new hooded wishbone spiders - part of a national campaign.Spiders are not everyone’s cup-of-tea, but this National Science Week the Western Australian Museum is celebrating the identification of 24 new species of hooded wishbone spiders from WA. What makes these identifications even more exciting is they are from our existing Museum collection and form part of a national research project that aims to discover 100 new species of Australian wishbone spiders.Read more News Flora Perrella
9 Aug 2024From forensic science to the science behind making fairy floss. Science After Dark at the Museum of the Goldfields this National Science WeekPrepare to be amazed this National Science Week as the Museum of the Goldfields bands together with other exciting organisations in the Goldfields region to ignite your curiosity with Science After Dark on Thursday 15 August from 5pm – 7.30pm. From learning how to dust for fingerprints from a real Crime Scene Investigator, to finding out how volcanoes erupt, and the science behind making fairy floss – there’s something for every age group in Science After Dark!Read more News Flora Perrella
8 Aug 2024New land snail species named after beloved pet dog A newly described species of Pilbara land snail has been discovered by WA Museum scientists and named in memory of a beloved family dog. The new species of land snail, Bothriembryon rocketi, was published in the Australian Journal of Taxonomy following a 5-year project – between 2014 and 2019 – to explore the marine and terrestrial biodiversity of the Pilbara. WA Museum’s Aquatic Zoology scientists used a comprehensive DNA data set to confirm that at least one undescribed species of Bothriembryon land snail was present in the region. Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
8 Aug 2024Aboriginal digital art front and centre at WA Museum Boola Bardip Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
5 Aug 2024Historic artworks of the Spinifex People on display at the WA Museum of Geraldton The Museum of Geraldton is thrilled to announce its latest exhibition, Pila Nguru: Art and Song from the Spinifex People, on display until 10 November. Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
26 Jul 2024Meet our new Senior Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AdvisorWe are delighted to welcome Leanne Woods as our new Senior Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisor. Leanne is a proud Whadjuk and Wongi woman with connections to the Ballardong people. She brings extensive experience in education, strategy, and partnerships, along with a strong rapport with the local Aboriginal community. Previously, Leanne worked at Water Corporation as the Lead – Cultural Educator. In this role, she led Nyoongar Language Workshops, gave talks for staff, and co-hosted the National Reconciliation Week breakfast.Read more News Ella Winterbottom
23 Jul 2024Three WA Museum sites receive 2024 Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice AwardThe Western Australian Museum is celebrating three 2024 Trip Advisor Traveller’s Choice Awards for museums in Fremantle and Kalgoorlie. Reviews from Trip Advisor travellers have placed the Museum of the Goldfields, WA Maritime Museum and WA Shipwrecks Museum in the top ten per cent of attractions worldwide in 2024. WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said: “Our sincere thanks go to all the visitors and supporters who gave such positive feedback,” Mr Coles said.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
8 Jul 2024A fossil so weird it stumped scientists for decades. This is HUGE….Every now and again palaeontologists come across a fossil so weird it takes decades of detective work to finally understand its relationship to other organisms. The 275-million-year-old Helicoprion is one of these enigmas. The first glimpses of this shark-like animal came from the Gascoyne Region in Western Australia; a partial tooth whorl with 14 preserved teeth.Read more News Flora Perrella
2 Jul 2024Plating up Perth’s culinary history: Bernies burger plate in WA Museum’s collection When late-night eatery Bernies opened in 1939, it quickly became a popular Perth nightspot. Owner Bernard Hardwick began by serving ‘finger meals’, including crayfish rolls, from caravans parked along Mounts Bay Road. Later, he built a more permanent structure where the Mount Hospital now stands. US servicemen are credited with introducing the hamburger to Bernies during WWII.Read more News Ella Winterbottom
27 Jun 2024Criminologist and artist brings unique exhibition to AlbanyThe Museum of the Great Southern welcomes Western Australian interdisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eeckens and her Tributaries exhibition. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Saturday, 5 July, includes jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and objects formed by corrosion casting, a process by which resin is injected into animal organs and other biological systems to form moulds of internal spaces.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius