WA Museum at AWESOME Arts Festival

Sun 30 Sep 2018 – Sun 7 Oct 2018

10:00am – 3:00pm

Offsite

Join the Museum at this year's AWESOME Arts Festival for Bright Young Things!

Find us in the Perth Cultural Centre where we have two exciting kids programs on offer.

Banksia Woodland Wonderland

Find us inside the State Library of Western Australia

Welcome to our Banksia Woodland! Delve into the understorey of an amazing world, home to thousands of incredible, and unique WA plants and animals.

Join artist Chloe Flockart as she helps our Museum banksia warriors to create an art display for the New Museum. We need your help to create a mural of the banksia woodland that showcases the important, unique, and beautiful species that live right on our doorstep.

Banksia Woodlands are home to precious and threatened little critters like honey possums, sand swimming lizards, Carnaby Cockatoos, and carpet pythons as well as a wonderful array of banksia plants, kangaroo paw, native orchids, wattle and fungi (and so much more!).

Learn about our Museum's collections and the research work we do to preserve these habitats so we can protect these treasures for future generations.

This event is free but bookings are essential.

Book tickets online

Or call 1300 134 081 to book by phone.

Dates: Sunday 30 September - Sunday 7 October
Time: 10am-3pm
Location: Inside the State Library of WA
Ages: 4+

 

Build-a-Bug

"To children stand showing off artworks they have created."
WA Museum "A piece of paper with cut out sections of glued on it to create a strange bug-like creature that has been coloured in sketchily as if by a small child."Your bug could have giant butterfly wings...
WA Museum "A piece of paper with cut out sections of glued on it to create a strange bug-like creature with large butterfly wings and a small body."Or wings that are long and flat.
WA Museum "A piece of paper with cut out sections of glued on it to create a strange bug-like creature that has been coloured in sketchily as if by a small child."
WA Museum "A piece of paper with cut out sections of glued on it to create a strange bug-like creature coloured in with a rainbow of colours."
WA Museum

A butterfly can taste with its feet, ants will tap each other with their antennae to talk to each other, and male stalk-eyed flies attract the ladies with their big round eyes...imagine if an insect had all these body parts. What do you think it could do?!

Join our Museum team to design your own insect. We want to see creative, amazing, and crazy insects.

Learn how the anatomy of an insect gives it its abilities and helps it to thrive in its environment.

Dates: Monday 1 October - Sunday 7 October
Time: 10am-3pm
Location: Museum in a Container, Perth Cultural Centre
Ages: 3+

Quadrant Energy

This activation is proudly supported by Quadrant Energy.

Caption: Banksia Woodland Wonderland activity

Credit: WA Museum