27 Jun 2024Criminologist and artist brings unique exhibition to AlbanyThe Museum of the Great Southern welcomes Western Australian interdisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eeckens and her Tributaries exhibition. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Saturday, 5 July, includes jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and objects formed by corrosion casting, a process by which resin is injected into animal organs and other biological systems to form moulds of internal spaces.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
18 Jun 2024WA Museum Boola Bardip ‘wins’ an Olympic gold medal As our Australian Olympians prepare to head to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, we are celebrating our own gold medal! Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
17 Jun 2024WA Day 2024 Celebrated with flair at WA Museum Blue skies, big crowds, smiling faces and people from diverse places thronged together at the WA Day 2024 celebrations on the June 3 2024 at the Museum of Geraldton, Museum of the Great Southern, Museum of the Goldfields and Gwoonwardu Mia. WA Museum's regional team brought together regional celebrations that reflected their communities and saw over 12,000 people attend.Read more News Kasper Johansen
13 Jun 2024Museum of the Great Southern heading out of this world for new space focused exhibition A brand-new free exhibition that explores Australia’s role in the space race is set to touch down at the Museum of the Great Southern this Saturday 8 June 2024. A touring exhibition from the National Archives of Australia, Out of This World: Australia in the Space Age looks at exciting times, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Visitors will experience the nation’s enthusiastic response to space exploration, from cutting-edge scientific research to space-inspired design, television and much more.Read more News Kasper Johansen
10 Jun 2024New exhibition Lurrtjurni - Together at Museum of the Goldfields Derived from the language groups of the five artists featured, the word ‘Lurrtjurni’ shared across all, evokes a sense of togetherness and connection to the present.Read more News Kasper Johansen
7 Jun 2024World Ocean Day: International bivalve research project at Gathaagudu/Shark Bay World Heritage area Read more News Kasper Johansen
29 May 2024Deep dives into Rottnest's Ships GraveyardDiving up to 100m into the Indian Ocean west of Perth, a team of elite technical divers are uncovering and identifying shipwrecks in conjunction with the Western Australian Museum. Some of these shipwrecks have been at the bottom of the sea for more than 100 years.Read more News Flora Perrella
27 May 2024Western Australian Museum joins in WA Day celebrations WA Day unites all people young and old, from all ethnicities and cultures, who have made Western Australia such an incredible and unique place to live. It’s a day where we acknowledge the histories, diverse cultures and contributions made by all people who proudly call Western Australia home. Here's how you can celebrate with the Western Australian Museum! WA Museum Boola Bardip: Nyoongar Story Time Where: WA Museum Boola Bardip Read more News Kasper Johansen
23 May 2024National Volunteer Week National Volunteer Week is a time to celebrate volunteers across the country, but at the WA Museum we are grateful for our volunteers every day of the year! If you have visited one of our sites, you've likely been greeted by one of our wonderful volunteers. Knowledgeable, passionate, helpful, and generous, they are always there to ensure visitors have the best experience at any one of WA Museum's seven locations. Here's what they had to say about why they volunteer:Read more News Kasper Johansen
18 May 2024CEO Alec Coles shares his thoughts on International Museum Day 2024May 18 marks the annual International Museum Day, and this year's theme is 'Museums for Education and Research,' For the Western Australian Museum, these could barely be more appropriate themes, with both at the heart of our work.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
14 May 2024Deep-sea explorer and filmmaker James Cameron visits Fremantle in exclusive WA Museum eventWe were thrilled to bring James Cameron to Western Australia for a public event on Sunday 24 March 2024, to celebrate the launch of JAMES CAMERON – CHALLENGING THE DEEP at the WA Maritime Museum. The In Conversation event, held at the Fremantle Passenger Terminal, saw senior reporter and film critic Ben O’Shea discuss with James Cameron his passion and pursuits in deep ocean scientific and technical innovations, creative achievements, and his relationship between filmmaking and deep ocean exploration.Read more News Ella Winterbottom
6 May 2024Untold Western Australian tales take the spotlight in new documentary seriesA captivating new twelve-part documentary series, Such Was Life, delves into the fascinating and often overlooked stories across Western Australia, spotlighting the people and narratives defining our state's unique character. These five-minute documentary shorts look at stories across regional Western Australia. From the first bride of Coolgardie and Australia’s largest ghost town to a musical tour on the back of an old Army truck and a time when water was more precious than gold, Such Was Life explores how the past has shaped the Western Australia we know today.Read more News Kasper Johansen
29 Apr 2024New study reveals the Kimberley Reefs are a nationally significant reservoir of tropical coral biodiversityCoral reefs in the Kimberley region of northwest Western Australia are home to substantially greater coral diversity than first thought a new Western Australian Museum study finds. A new publication into the reef-building hard coral biodiversity of the Kimberley region has revealed the importance of the Kimberley region as a nationally significant reservoir of tropical coral biodiversity. The study increases previous estimates of reef-building corals in the Kimberley to 438 species, about 20% higher than earlier estimates of coral diversity in the region.Read more News Kasper Johansen
15 Apr 2024WA scientists discover new species of land snail estimated to be around three million years oldScientists at the Western Australian Museum have uncovered a new species of fossil snail in Western Australia's Nullarbor region, estimated to be around three million years old. The groundbreaking palaeontological discovery comes after two comprehensive fieldwork sessions between 2021 and 2023. The project was initiated following the discovery of a small number of Bothriembryon (land snail) specimens in the Museum’s palaeontology collection that did not align with any known species.Read more News Kasper Johansen
12 Apr 2024Lester Prize for Portraiture Youth Awards returns to WA Museum Boola Bardip for 2024 Read more News Kasper Johansen
8 Apr 2024Emerging Curators continue two-way knowledge exchange as part of the Kimberley Reef Connect ProjectA group of Uunguu Rangers from Wunambal Gaambera Country in the North Kimberley have taken part in an Emerging Curators Workshop at Western Australian Museum’s Collection and Research Centre to exchange cultural and scientific knowledge. The Emerging Curators Workshop was the second stage in the learning program following the collection of marine species during an expedition by the group to Wunambal Gaambera Wundaagu (Sea Country) in the North Kimberley Marine Park in November 2023.Read more News Kasper Johansen
8 Apr 2024OOLOGY: A hard boiled tale of obsession, plunder, and rectificationLong before Pokémon GO or Footy Cards existed, the biggest collecting mania was bird eggs! Read more News Flora Perrella
28 Mar 2024WA Museum’s latest exhibition To the Moon to include NASA Moon rock and world renown ‘Museum of the Moon’ installation The Moon – mysterious, enigmatic, changing, waxing, and waning. Throughout human history, the Moon has been an object of intrigue, reverence, and curiosity. It has influenced cultures, driven scientific discovery, fueled imagination and inspired creativity. We have endeavoured to make sense of the great, celestial body that graces our nocturnal sky. From early theories about its influence on our behaviour to monumental astronomical achievements, we have always been driven by wonder and starry-eyed curiosity to discover the truths about Earth’s moon. Read more News Kasper Johansen
17 Mar 2024Major immersive exhibition on James Cameron’s deep-ocean exploration opens at WA Maritime MuseumOn 23 March 2024, the WA Maritime Museum opens its doors to JAMES CAMERON – CHALLENGING THE DEEP, an exhibition by acclaimed explorer and award-winning film-maker James Cameron. The exhibition explores Cameron’s extensive career as a deep-sea explorer and his many history-making expeditions. JAMES CAMERON – CHALLENGING THE DEEP takes visitors to the depths of our oceans through the lens of Cameron’s underwater cameras, as well as his other incredible technological innovations that have enabled us to see one of the least known places on Earth.Read more News Robyn Ambrosius
5 Mar 2024Museum of Geraldton heads out of this world for new space focused exhibition A brand-new free exhibition that explores Australia’s role in the space race is set to touch down at the Museum of Geraldton this weekend. A touring exhibition from the National Archives of Australia, Out of This World: Australia in the space age looks back at exciting times, from the 1950s to the 1970s. It recalls the nation’s enthusiastic contribution to space exploration, including cutting-edge scientific research. It also considers the impact that the phenomenon had on popular culture, from space-inspired design to television programs and literature.Read more News Kasper Johansen