Find the fireSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade ago20 April – 5 May 2011Activities between 10.0am and 4.30pm daily Bookings essential for groups of 10 or more on 9021 8533Explore the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder with Dennis the fire engine. Purchase a Museum activity book and help Dennis the fire engine fight fire. The activity book is packed full of puzzles, activities and pictures that will help you and your friends to learn more about the displays inside the Museum.AGES: 4 – 12 yearsCOST: $5 per activity bookMore information
Tree top escapadesSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade ago20 April – 4 May 2011 Activities between 10.00am – 4.30pmMore information
Trade WindsSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade ago20 April – 4 May 2011 (excluding weekends, Good Friday, ANZAC Day and Easter Tuesday)Activities between 10.00am – 2.00pmStep back in time to an era of traders, treasures and triumphant discoveries, as merchant sailors and stately spice trade ships ruled the Indian Ocean.More information
Secrets of ShellsSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade ago20 April – 4 May 2011 (excluding weekends, Good Friday, ANZAC Day and Easter Tuesday)Activities between 10.00am and 2.00pm daily Join Museum curators Shirley Slack-Smith and Corey Whisson for a look at the secret life of shells, squids and their other curious cousins in the Marvellous Molluscs show and tell session. Investigate the Shell Explorations touch table, make your own crazy shell-house creature with the Inside the Shell activity, and bring the sea into your own room with a shell-art door-hanger in From Shore to Door.More information
Play out loudSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade agoWednesday 20 April – Wednesday 4 May 2011 (excluding weekends, Good Friday 22, Anzac Day 25 and Easter Tuesday 26 April).Available between 10.00am and 2.00pm Presented in association with Grab The Mic! Challenge your inner rock-star with this high energy hands-on music workshop using real electronic rock instruments! Grab a guitar, bang out a rhythm on the drums, play keyboards, and get in the groove with hand percussion, an iPod mixing station, crazy wigs and more. Even little rockers can have a play!More information
Holiday Trails Special Event | Updated 1 decade ago9.30am – 4.30pm, Friday 17 December 2010 – Sunday 30 January 2011 Treasure Chest (suitable for non readers) Shipwreck, Mutiny, Murder & Treasure (suitable for readers) Femme Fatale (suitable for readers) Cost: $2 per trail More information
Footprints! - Albany Christmas Holiday WorkshopsSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade agoA Walk in the Forest - 6.30pm, Friday 7 January 2011 Join our special expert guests for a night walk to welcome in the UN International Year of Forests 2011. Come along and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the nocturnal Australian forest and the creatures that inhabit it after twilight. (Please bring a torch) Cost: Free Bookings essential on 9841 4844 or albany@museum.wa.gov.au Recycled Botany - 1.00pm, Mondays 10, 17 & 24 January 2011 More information
Christmas WorkshopsSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade agoIf you want to give that special person a handmade, planet friendly gift for Christmas then join us for Christmas Workshops. All wrapped in beautiful hand crafted gift paper with your own signature designs. Fragrant Soap Making 1.00pm, Monday 20 December 2010 Colourful Candles (made with soy wax) 1.00pm, Tuesday 21 December 2010 Chocolate Concoctions 1.00pm, Wednesday 22 December 2010 Duration: 2 hours Cost: $7 Bookings essential on 9841 4844 or albany@museum.wa.gov.au More information
Discovery Centre – Earthly EncountersSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade agoActivities available between 10.00am – 4.30pm daily (excluding weekends) 2011 is the International Year of Forests and the Discovery Centre has a great range of fun activities that relate to the world in Earthly Encounters. Submerged Worlds Delve into the dark and mysterious world of the giant kelp forests. Model one of the many colourful creatures that call the Kelp Forest home for our ocean diorama. More information
Build our DinoscapeSpecial Event | Updated 1 decade agoThe WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder will be taken over by all things dinosaur these school holidays. Find out what type of dinosaurs may have lived in the region that is now Kalgoorlie and learn more about prehistoric animals. All activities are available between 10.00am and 4.30pm and cost $2. Prehistoric Diorama - Saturday 1 – Monday 31 January 2011 What did the earth look like in prehistoric times? Re-create what the world looked like in prehistoric times by using plasticine models to create plants and animals for a prehistoric landscape. More information