What's on now at Albany
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Tuesday Curatorial @ Albany - Term 2
0 Public Lecture | Updated 1 month ago
Join us for a short talk and discussion (40-50 minutes) on many different aspects of life in Albany and around the region. Also, visit some of the historic sites associated with the talks and meet some of the people who maintain them. Tuesday morning lectures start at 10.30am. And this year, by popular demand, two Thursday evening talks (starting 5.30pm) will be conducted each term.
No bookings required. Entry by gold coin. Come early to enjoy morning tea with us!
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Tue 1 May 2012 – Tue 3 Jul 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 31 May 2012
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Thu 28 Jun 2012
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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International Museum Week 2012 in Albany
0 Special Event | Updated 3 weeks ago
Every year since 1977, International Museum Day is held worldwide sometime around 18 May. From America and Oceania to Europe, Asia and Africa, International Museum Day aims to increase public awareness of the role of museums in developing society.
The theme for 2012 is Museums in a Changing World. New challenges, New inspirations.
Albany is hosting the following program to celebrate the week.
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Sun 20 May 2012 – Thu 24 May 2012
9:30am – 4:00pm
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Mini-Muses 2012
0 Special Event | Updated 1 month ago
Mini Muses is a fun series of junior sessions (children 5 years and under) which will introduce your child to the wonderful native creatures of Western Australia.
The programs use elements of song, dance, games, puppetry, stories and a variety of hands-on activities, allowing children to learn interesting aspects of wildlife habits and biology.
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Thu 31 May 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 28 Jun 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 26 Jul 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Historical Inquiry – Albany
0 Special Event | Updated 2 weeks ago
Old Farm, Strawberry Hill & Western Australian Museum – Albany
Did you know that Old Farm Strawberry Hill was the site of the first farm in Western Australia growing vegetables for the soldiers? In 1835 Captain Sir Richard Spencer, his wife and nine children arrived at the settlement and took possession of Government Farm as it was then known. The Bird family purchased the property in 1889 and changed the name to 'The Old Farm'.
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Thu 14 Jun 2012
9:00am – 3:00pm
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Exploration and conservation: the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914
0 Public Lecture | Updated 2 weeks ago
Dr Ian Godfrey, Head of Department, Materials Conservation
How do you preserve fragile wooden buildings and artefacts in the windiest place on earth? Ian brings to life lesser known aspects of this heroic era of Antarctic exploration and explains the challenges (and solutions) of conserving this history.
Chevron is a presenting partner of In the Wild West lecture series.
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Thu 14 Jun 2012
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Fri 15 Jun 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thu 25 Oct 2012
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Fri 26 Oct 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Fri 9 Nov 2012
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Wed 21 Nov 2012
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Dinosaurs of the 21st century: masters of the skies
0 Public Lecture | Updated 2 weeks ago
Dr Mikael Siversson, Curator of Palaeontology, Earth & Planetary Sciences
They ruled the land for 170 million years and now they rule the skies! Explore the wonders of the dinosaur world, from the mighty T-rex to the humble duck.
Chevron is a presenting partner of In the Wild West lecture series.
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Thu 12 Jul 2012
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Fri 13 Jul 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Wed 12 Sep 2012
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Fri 23 Nov 2012
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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New discoveries in the world around us
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Dr Mark Harvey, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Zoology
12.30pm, Tuesday 22 May 2012We live in one of the last regions of the world where new animal species can be regularly found. Mark tells of the spiders, reptiles, frogs, scorpions, insects, and even ancient subterranean animals being described by WA Museum staff.
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Thu 16 Aug 2012
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Fri 17 Aug 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Mini-Muses 2012
0 Special Event | Updated 1 month ago
Mini Muses is a fun series of junior sessions (children 5 years and under) which will introduce your child to the wonderful native creatures of Western Australia.
The programs use elements of song, dance, games, puppetry, stories and a variety of hands-on activities, allowing children to learn interesting aspects of wildlife habits and biology.
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Thu 30 Aug 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 27 Sep 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 25 Oct 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Thu 29 Nov 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
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Into the valley of death rode… Henry Dyson Naylor
0 Public Lecture | Updated 2 weeks ago
Stephen Anstey, Curator, History
5.30pm, Wednesday 9 May 2012A chance inquiry about an old cavalry sabre leads Museum historians on a detective trail to piece together the story of its owner and uncover a Western Australian’s chilling first hand account of the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Fri 22 Jun 2012
12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Thu 13 Sep 2012
5:30pm – 7:00pm
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Fri 14 Sep 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Bush Tucker, Frog and Lizard Gardens
0 Long Term Exhibition | Updated 3 weeks ago
The Western Australian Museum – Albany also features three gardens built to inspire an appreciation of the local flora and fauna: the Bush Tucker, Frog and Lizard Gardens.
Each garden has a number of related activities and focuses, such as the intergenerational project. Also, the Bush Tucker Garden contains stories of local bush tucker and is built to reflect the six seasons of the Minang (the local Aboriginal nation).