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  • 29 Oct 2024

    Gwoonwardu Mia’s first art exhibition celebrates Gascoyne artists

    Gwoonwardu Mia has launched its first-ever art exhibition, Creation and Culture, showcasing the incredible talent of Gascoyne Aboriginal artists.

    Running from 11 October - 1 November, this free exhibition features works from 11 artists across a range of mediums, including acrylics, ceramics, wood carvings, resin, weaving, and photography. It offers a unique insight into the region's rich cultural heritage and contemporary creativity.

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    Jasmine Eales

  • 23 Oct 2024

    The end of an orbit and a new Moon set to rise

    Attracting more than 107,000 visitors from across WA, interstate, and overseas is just one of the many successes we are celebrating from our latest homegrown exhibition, To the Moon, which closed on 7 October.

    With humanity on the brink of returning to the Moon after over 50 years, To the Moon illuminated what we know and what’s yet to come, all while retracing our poetic yearnings for the Moon.

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    Ella Winterbottom

  • 23 Oct 2024

    Uncovering the hidden heroes of WA’s coral reefs

    Coral reefs are some of the most diverse and vital ecosystems on Earth, but there's more going on beneath the surface than meets the eye.

    At the heart of their survival are the tiny “hidden heroes” we know as Symbiodiniaceae. Sharing a symbiotic relationship with the coral that houses them, these microscopic single-celled organisms provide vital energy to their hosts through photosynthesis. Without them, coral reefs as we know them would simply not exist.

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    Jasmine Eales

  • 15 Oct 2024

    WA Maritime Museum crowned top tourism attraction 2024 at Fremantle Business Awards

    We are proud that the WA Maritime Museum has been crowned Champion Tourist Attraction for 2024 at the Fremantle Business Awards, organised by the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce.

    The award recognises the Museum’s considerable contribution to the Fremantle business and tourism economy. It is the culmination of a successful year in which the Museum not only hosted the JAMES CAMERON: CHALLENGING THE DEEP exhibition, but also welcomed James Cameron, himself, to Fremantle for an In Conversation event, hosted at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal.

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    Ella Winterbottom

  • 14 Oct 2024

    Stories of Australian nurses at war opening soon at the Museum of the Great Southern

    The Australian Nurses at War exhibition will open at the Museum of the Great Southern on Saturday 19 October.

    This reflective exhibition honours the courageous women who confronted the horrors of war firsthand. Many army nurses gave their health and well-being in service to Australia. Some sacrificed their lives.

    Museum of the Great Southern Regional Manager, Catherine Salmaggi, highlighted the often-overlooked role of these nurses, who worked tirelessly to care for the sick and wounded under some of the most difficult conditions.

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    Jasmine Eales

  • 14 Oct 2024

    Yamaji Yanajingmanha Barna/Uthudu brings art centres together at the Museum of Geraldton

    The Museum of Geraldton is honoured to host a first-time collaborative exhibition between two Aboriginal art centres from the Mid West: Yamaji Art (Geraldton) and Ku'Arlu Mangga (Northampton).

    Yamaji Yanajingmanha Barna/Uthudu (Yamaji Coming Together on Country), explores cultural revival and contemporary expressions of long-standing traditions, practices, and personal histories.

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    Jasmine Eales

  • 27 Sep 2024

    Taking it back to WA's very first national record label

    Back in 1962, WA music industry pioneer Martin Clarke launched Clarion Records, changing the face of WA’s recording industry.

    Focused on local acts, Clarion brought us releases from The Valentines with a young Bon Scott before he found fame with AC/DC, Johnny Young, Robbie Snowden, The Birds and more.

    Clarke used a lathe – which converts an audio signal into grooves on an acetate blank with an embossing stylus – to produce master discs which he used as templates to produce records on a commercial scale.

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    Ella Winterbottom

  • 18 Sep 2024

    WA Museum Boola Bardip 2024 Tourism Awards Finalist

    The 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.

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    Robyn Ambrosius

  • 17 Sep 2024

    We 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/N4UT9Z116PDhYrHX7

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    Flora Perrella

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    12 Sep 2024

    Museum 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.

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    Jasmine Eales

  • 23 Aug 2024

    Foundation 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.  

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    Ella Winterbottom

  • 21 Aug 2024

    Calling 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.

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    Flora Perrella

  • Point Walter Barge wreck site map

    21 Aug 2024

    Earliest 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. 

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    Robyn Ambrosius

  • A boot print on the surface of the Moon.

    15 Aug 2024

    Houston, we’ve got a dust problem. Meet the WA scientist who took on NASA’s lunar dust dilemma

    Dust 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.

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    Ella Winterbottom

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    9 Aug 2024

    Saving the world at the WA Museum

    Visitors 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.

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    Robyn Ambrosius

  • Hooded wishbone spider

    9 Aug 2024

    National 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.

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    Flora Perrella

  • Explore the Night Sky

    9 Aug 2024

    From forensic science to the science behind making fairy floss. Science After Dark at the Museum of the Goldfields this National Science Week

    Prepare 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!

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    Flora Perrella

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