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‘Angels in orbit’ fashion parade, Sydney, 1969. June Dally-Watkins, organised a charity fashion parade to celebrate the Moon landing. Courtesy of National Film and Sound Archive.

Museum of the Great Southern heading out of this world for new space focused exhibition

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A Fragum Cockle (Bivalve) under the water at Shark Bay

World Ocean Day: International bivalve research project at Gathaagudu/Shark Bay World Heritage area

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Ange Leech, Project Officer Regions, Western Australian Museum with Naqa, a camel puppet built by Karen Hethey at the WA Museum

Western Australian Museum joins in WA Day celebrations

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Western Australian Museum volunteers pose for a group photo underneath the Museum's colourful mineral archway

National Volunteer Week

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A historical picture of a group of men on camel-back

Untold Western Australian tales take the spotlight in new documentary series

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A green turtle rests among coral at low tide in the Kimberley region

New study reveals the Kimberley Reefs are a nationally significant reservoir of tropical coral biodiversity

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A Hand holds a rock containing the fossilised Bothriembryon pilkiensis

WA scientists discover new species of land snail estimated to be around three million years old

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Emerging Curators working with WA Museum's Aquatic Zoology team

Emerging Curators continue two-way knowledge exchange as part of the Kimberley Reef Connect Project

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Women from Bandyup Women's Prison share their stories during Museum of Stories

Museum artifacts help women prisoners develop creative storytelling

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Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (PCOL) – To The Moon

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Alec Coles engaging in conversation candid image

Saving the World… Museums, Sustainability and Well-being

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The Antikythera Mechanism on Display at WA Museum Boola Bardip, Credit WA Museum Bec Weldon

New exhibition at Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip reveals secrets of world’s first mechanical computer

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A large group of people seated in orange and white chairs face a large projector at the front of the room with an individual standing at a podium. The image projected onto the screen displays a book titled 'Eclipse Chasers' and some smaller text

Western Australian Museum Talks - How Eclipse Chasers: Past, Present and Future put a natural phenomenon into context.

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Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (PCOL) – Discovering Ancient Egypt

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2023 Season Launch

WA Museum 2023 season launch

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Gnomes Wonderland light up mushroom.

WA Museum Christmas gift guide

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The WA Maritime Museum under construction in 2001.

WA Maritime Museum celebrates 20th anniversary with live music and extended opening hours

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A Gastropoda, Conus Geographus or Cone Shell found near Cassini Island, Kimberley.

Life as an Aquatic Zoologist: The important work of Dr Lisa Kirkendale

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Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (PCOL) – Dinosaurs of Patagonia

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Murujuga Rock Art Strategy and Rock Art Stakeholder Reference Group

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Frog and Brolga interactive experience

Jirraginy joo Goorrarndal: Frog and Brolga

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New research discovering new species of fussy barnacles

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Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (PCOL) – Brickwrecks

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Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan (PCOL) – Ancient Greeks

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A Brig is moored near a stone wall beneath a clear blue sky

The story of the Brig Amity

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Male and female specimens of Harveyus contrerasi.

New genus of schizomid named after WA Museum’s Dr Mark Harvey

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An artwork representing the Pig-footed Bandicoot, published in Gould’s Mammals of Australia (1845).

The tale (or tail) of an extraordinary marsupial

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International Day for Biological Diversity

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Chinese in Albany | Distant Discoveries

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Man holding a book on a black background

Albany in the 1920s | Distant Discoveries

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