Join us as we take a trip back into deep time when the Earth was younger and dinosaurs ruled the land!
Erth’s widely acclaimed Dinosaur Zoo theatre performance is bigger and better and heading to the WA Museum for the 2016 January school holidays!
The Dinosaur Zoo performance features a cast of amazingly life-like, large-scale dinosaur puppets that are bound to have everyone young and old on the edge of their seats.
Join us as we take a trip back in time when the Earth was younger and dinosaurs ruled the land.
Erth’s widely acclaimed Dinosaur Zoo theatre performance is bigger and better and heading to the WA Museum – Perth for the 2016 January school holidays.
Venture into the secret world of submarine warfare as you go on a tour of HMAS Ovens. Find out what is needed to keep war-time vessels afloat, then design, build and test your own balloon powered battleship.
Join your junior explorers, future subsea engineers and amateur maritime archaeologists at the WA Maritime Museum for a shared family friendly experience, and rediscover for yourself what makes the Museum a marvellous place to learn about the amazing world under the sea. A half day of fun for everyone!
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This is your chance to explore the Museum in ways that most people never do and have a heap of fun! Get up close to special Museum objects, discover our galleries with our team and take on our skill-testing, brain-bending Time Trekker challenges.
Join your junior explorers, future palaeontologists and amateur archaeologists at the WA Museum – Perth for a shared family friendly experience, and rediscover for yourself what makes the Museum a marvellous place to learn about our amazing world. A half-day of fun for everyone!
A beach in Kalgoorlie-Boulder? Isn’t the nearest beach more than 400 kilometres away? Wrong! These school holidays, the beach is coming to the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder! Come along and get your feet in the sand, play beach games, make a fan to keep cool and pretend the beach is not so far away.
Dates: 14 December 2015 – 31 January 2016
Cost: $1.50
Age: all ages
Bookings: not required
Delve deep into our oceans these school holidays and join staff at the WA Museum – Geraldton as we uncover fantastic facts and mysterious myths of some of the bizarre creatures that call the ocean’s cold, dark depths home.
Come along and learn about the curious features our amazing sea life have developed and the reasons they have had to adapt so they can live and survive in these environments.
Dates: 19 December – 31 January
Time: 9.30am – 5pm
Cost: $4
Age: ages 4+
Bookings: required for groups of 10+
Avast me hearties!! Some pesky pirates have raided the Museum and hidden the Treasure of the Golden Dragon! Come and follow the trail of the treasure and take a pirate’s share of the loot – your very own silvery coin and papercraft treasure chest to take home.
Come and join us in Fremantle these school holidays to celebrate da Vinci’s genius and encounter and test some amazing machines.
Marvel at the Da Vinci Machines exhibition, explore his world of imaginative machines and then try your own construction challenge.
Entry to the fascinating Da Vinci Machines exhibition is free with Maritime Museum entry. Alternately you could take a journey into pirate adventure at the Shipwreck Galleries with a museum trail full of treasure!
How much do you know about sand? Did you know glass is made from it? That it can sing, and is home to an amazing array of creatures?
Discover more extraordinary, science about this ordinary substance, and create your own fun and sandy arts and crafts in our Discovery Centre these Christmas holidays.
Dig deep and bury yourself in the secretive, shifting world of sand.
Times: 10am to 4.30pm Dates: 19 December 2015 – 4 April 2016
Ages: all ages
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