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.
Welcome to our Banksia Woodland! Delve into the understorey of an amazing world, home to thousands of incredible, and unique WA plants and animals.
Ahoy me hearties! Weigh anchor and set sail for our Museum in a Container these school holidays at the Perth Cultural Centre.
Young scallywags will discover objects that were used in the daily lives of pirates, before joining us in our activity area to construct their very own pirate ship to take home!
Find us near Polly's cafe.
These school holidays visit the Museum's Play-laeontology Zone at Karrinyup Shopping Centre!
Let you children uncover their inner palaeontologist as they learn how fossils are made. Then, armed with their own dig kit and tools, participants will be able to unearth a dinosaur tooth buried deep within clay.
Find us on the ground floor near the food court for a roar-some time!
Join us at the WA Maritime Museum these school holidays as we explore the fascinating world of Vikings: Warriors of the North, Giants of the Sea.
Explore the world of simple machines which have been used throughout the centuries from moving large blocks to build the pyramids in Egypt to using cranes to build city skyscrapers today!
What are simple machines and how do we use them? Can you operate our hydraulic arm gently enough to lift an egg? Launch projectiles from our catapult and see if you can hit the target and explore how stored energy becomes kinetic energy. Find the answers to these questions and much more in Magnificent Machines.
Have you got what it takes to be a secret agent? Enter the shadowy world of spies and espionage at the Museum of Geraldton these school holidays!
Spy Trails
Choose from four museum trails including a coding cypher trail for young master spies.
Dates: 3 - 18 April Cost: Free- $1 Age: All ages
Programs are subject to availability. All children 12 years and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Visit the Museum of the Goldfields these April School Holidays and join in the fun-filled activities while visiting our latest travelling exhibition, Happy Birthday Playschool: Celebrating 50 Years.
Have fun with the different activities each day as you interact with the Play School toys and join in their daily adventures.
Dates: 23 September – 8 October General Activities: 10am – 2pm Pirate Parade: 11am daily Storytelling: 10.30am daily Cost: Free – $2 Age: 4+ Bookings: Only required only for groups of 10+. Call 1300 134 081
Shiver me timbers! Get on board and join in our seafaring adventures.
Welcome to the Museum of the Goldfields where you can have fun as you spot mystery objects on Earth, as well as celestial bodies in the sky! Take photos to capture memories of these school holidays.
Dates: 23 September – 8 October Times: 10.30am – 3pm Cost: $3.50 Age: 4+ Bookings: Not required
Make your very own telescope to help you spot the mystery bits and pieces in and around the Museum.
The WA Museum’s Discovery Zone (at the State Library of WA) will be jam-packed with fun, learning and exploring activities.
How are bones formed? What will you find in the special Cabinet of Curiosity? Do you know what the Nyoongar word Kwenda means? Find out all this and so much more!
Dates: 23 September – 8 October Times: 11am – 11.30am Cost: Free Age: 4 – 13 Bookings: Not essential