What's New
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20 Apr 2016
Harry Butler Research Centre - Percent for Art Scheme
Government of Western Australia - Percent for Art Scheme Western Australian Museum - Collections and Research Centre Upgrade 2016Artists Margaret Dillon, Penny Bovell and Eveline Kotai drew upon the iconic imagery of the Western Australian Museum’s Collections and Research Centre to create the facility’s artwork. The artwork is integrated into three main areas of the facility, creating a conversation between the pieces and the Museum’s collections that both compliments the facility and reflects its philosophy of openness, growth and progression.
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19 Apr 2016
WA Museum scientist heading for the Antarctic
Western Australian Museum scientist Dr Nerida Wilson has been selected to join an international team of 55 researchers from 30 countries to take part in a three-month expedition to circumnavigate the Antarctic, studying climate change and pollution in the Southern Ocean.
The expedition, which will depart in December, is being organised by the newly formed Swiss Polar Institute, established to study the Earth’s poles and the critical impact of change on those extreme environments, to identify the global challenges that lay ahead.
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12 Apr 2016
A Virtual Walk around the Perth Museum
The Western Australian Museum – Perth will be undergoing a major redevelopment over the next 4 years as part of the New Museum Project.
As such, since December 2015, thousands of objects and specimens have been removed from the Western Australian Museum – Perth into safe storage at the Collections and Research Centre in Welshpool.
This collection of panoramas captured the WA Museum – Perth before the decant began, and so preserves the site as it stood prior to the dismantling of displays and exhibition spaces.
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7 Apr 2016
Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas Island Birds
This page explores a selection of birds from the Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas Islands. At the bottom of this page, information sheets in English, Malay and Chinese can be downloaded.
Red-footed BoobySula sula
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5 Apr 2016
Children get free entry to Maritime Museum ahead of school holidays
Changes to general admission fees at the WA Maritime Museum will give children under 15 years free entry to the Museum’s permanent galleries, just in time for the April school holidays.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the new fee structure was being introduced from 9 April, 2016.
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1 Apr 2016
WA’s first Dutch connections on display at Carnarvon Library and Art Gallery
An exhibition encompassing the stories of the first recorded European (Dutch) landings in Shark Bay, Western Australia, will be on display at the Carnarvon Library and Art Gallery from Tuesday 5 April.
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.
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23 Mar 2016
Bird Gallery #faveobjects
Watch this video to find out Western Australian Museum Ornithology Curator Ron Johnstone's favourite objects from the Bird Gallery. This gallery has been decanted as part of preparations for the New Museum for Western Australia.
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22 Mar 2016
WAM Head of Terrestrial Zoology elected Vice-President
Dr Mark Harvey, Head of the Department of Terrestrial Zoology at the Western Australian Museum, has recently been elected Vice-President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) for a six year term.
The ICZN is the international body that oversees the naming of all animal species worldwide.
ICZN is mandated by the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and members are elected by zoologists attending General Assemblies of the IUBS or other international congresses.
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14 Mar 2016
Compelling WA press photography on display
The work of WA’s most exciting news photographers has been captured in the 2016 WA Press Photographer of the Year exhibition, currently on display at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.
WA Museum CEO Alec Coles said the Museum is delighted to host this year’s exhibition.
“This exhibition gives eyewitness accounts of this State’s major news events, sporting moments and incredible personal stories, captured by Western Australian photographers over the past year,” Mr Coles said.
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14 Mar 2016
Koombana Bay archaeological excavations 8-16 February 2016
The Bunbury whalers Photo Gallery of the 2016 Dig -
9 Mar 2016
Stories about Indigenous Australians at war presented at the Western Australian Museum – Albany
Indigenous Australians at war from the Boer War to the present opens at the Western Australian Museum – Albany this week.
This touring exhibition from the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne presents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ stories from all over Australia, including from the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
WA Museum – Albany Regional Manager Rachael Wilsher-Saa said it is really important to acknowledge Aboriginal men and women who served their country during wars.
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8 Mar 2016
New search for 5th Old Dutch shipwreck
The Western Australian Museum is embarking on a new 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.
An aerial magnetometer survey of a section of the Pelsaert Group has begun, funded by long-time Museum supporter and Chairman of Austal Ltd, John Rothwell. The survey is looking for magnetic anomalies that would indicate the presence of another, as yet undiscovered, historic shipwreck.
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