1 May 2014WA Museum puts West Australian wildlife in your handsPlease note that this app is currently unavailable as it undergoes a content review. Get to know your local bugs, birds and beasts when the Western Australian Museum launches its new Field Guide to Western Australian Fauna app today. This free app provides descriptions, photos, distribution maps and endangered species status of more than 250 species of birds, frogs, mammals and more, found on the land and in waters across Western Australia.Read more News Jane Rosevear
30 Apr 2014Slender mud-dauber wasps: genus SceliphronMud nests are constructed by a wide variety of wasps representing the families Vespidae, Sphecidae and Pompilidae, with the greatest number belonging to the first of these. This information sheet relates to just one genus, Sceliphron, in the family Sphecidae. Read more Article Western Australian Museum
30 Apr 2014Native Bee – Presumed Extinct Native Bee – Presumed Extinct Hesperocolletes douglasi Michener Fig. 1. Facial view of Hesperocolletes douglasi, holotype, male. Image copyright WA Museum Read more Article Western Australian Museum
28 Apr 2014Amazing ANZANG reaches the GoldfieldsThe Western Australian Museum tour of The Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition will reach the Goldfields this Saturday 3 May. The Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year showcases the unique natural beauty of the Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea region via the winning works of the world’s best amateur and professional photographers.Read more News Jane Rosevear
28 Apr 2014Convicts in the Mid WestVisitors to Western Australian Museum – Geraldton will experience a unique perspective on convict settlers, the crimes that landed them in Australia and links to their living descendants, when A Convict in the Family? opens this Saturday 3 May. This thought-provoking photographic exhibition by documentary photographer Mine Konakci visually explores and exposes petty crimes that changed the course of many family histories.Read more News Jane Rosevear
17 Apr 2014WA FacesWe are all Western Australian. We each have stories about who we are, our connections to family, friends and Country, and how we came to live and work in Western Australia. Each face has a story to tell. Join the WA Faces album; share your portrait and your story and help us show the world what it means to be Western Australian. Read more Online Exhibition Western Australian Museum
11 Apr 2014A behind-the-scenes look at our crustacean collectionThis small photo gallery gives a behind-the-scenes look into the crustacean collection. It will be enhanced in the near future with a Smartphone and tablet app that the Western Australian Museum is currently developing. This Smartphone and tablet app will reveal what happens behind-the-scenes at the Museum, explaining the research performed and showcasing our collections. The Western Australian Museum is developing a variety of new products for our audiences, and invites you to give your opinion about this app project by answering a short survey:Read more Photo Galleries Jessica Scholle
8 Apr 2014Zebedee generated maps of the WA MuseumIn March 2014 the Museum was lucky enough to welcome the CSIRO robotics team to talk about 3D mapping of physical spaces and digital preservation of significant locations.Read more Photo Galleries Western Australian Museum
1 Apr 2014A behind-the-scenes look at our butterfly collectionThis small photo gallery gives a behind-the-scenes look into the butterfly collection. It will be enhanced in the near future with a Smartphone and tablet app that the Western Australian Museum is currently developing. This Smartphone and tablet app will aim to reveal what happens behind-the-scenes at the Museum, explaining the research performed and showcasing our collections. The Western Australian Museum is always aiming to offer products that our audiences want, and invites you to give your opinion about this app project by answering a short survey:Read more Photo Galleries Jessica Scholle
28 Mar 2014A behind-the-scenes look at our volute collectionThis small photo gallery gives a behind-the-scenes look into the volute collection. It will be enhanced in the near future with a Smartphone and tablet app that the Western Australian Museum is currently developing. This Smartphone and tablet app will reveal what happens behind-the-scenes at the Museum, explaining the research performed and showcasing our collections.Read more Photo Galleries Jessica Scholle
11 Mar 2014Turtle talk to help Gnaraloo’s unique programThe Western Australian Museum – Geraldton is doing its bit to help a unique program to protect residents of a remote stretch of WA coastline in the world famous Ningaloo Marine Park. The Gnaraloo coastline is building fame in its own right because of its endangered sea turtle populations. Sea turtles nest and hatch on beaches along the Gnaraloo coastline annually, generally from November to April.Read more News Western Australian Museum
28 Feb 2014Offshore treasures found in WA Museum fieldtripScientists and researchers led by a team from the Western Australian Museum have made a series of surprising and exciting discoveries in waters nearly 350 kilometres off the Kimberley coast. Among them were previously undocumented fauna, species recorded for the first time in Western Australia and, in some cases, Australia. The data and specimens collected are being analysed and documented in the Museum’s Welshpool laboratories.Read more News Western Australian Museum
7 Feb 2014Albany explores an enduring Debt of HonourThe incredible story of 270 Australian commandos who defied all odds to hold down more than 10,000 Japanese troops in East Timor during a critical point of World War II will be told at the Western Australian Museum – Albany from February 14. Debt of Honour: Australia’s First Commandos and East Timor recounts the little-known story of one of Australia’s most defining campaigns of the Second World War.Read more News Niki Comparti
7 Feb 2014Amazing ANZANG makes its way to the Mid WestThe Western Australian Museum tour of The Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition will make its way to the Mid West on February 13. The Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year showcases the unique natural beauty of the Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea region via the winning works of the world’s best amateur and professional photographers.Read more News Niki Comparti
4 Feb 2014Convicts in KalgoorlieThe country’s history of incarceration and convicts will be on display in two simultaneous exhibitions at the WA Museum – Kalgoorlie from February 6. The first, Rockbreakers, tells the story of the convict-built, prisoner-filled Fremantle Prison and Old Perth Gaol and their little-known shared rock and mineral collection during the 1880s.Read more News Niki Comparti
17 Dec 2013Shining a light on Geraldton's historyThe Fresnel lens from one of the State’s oldest working lighthouses, Geraldton’s 135-year-old Point Moore Lighthouse, will go on permanent display at the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton from December 20. The project was made possible through funding from the City of Greater Geraldton, in-kind assistance from Geraldton Port Authority for the installation of the lens and Diab Engineering sponsorship.Read more News Niki Comparti
13 Dec 2013Dinosaurs storm WA Museum in world first!The Western Australian Museum will bring to life the extraordinary dinosaurs of the Earth’s Cretaceous period in a spine-tingling, custom-made exhibition featuring more than 20 life-size animatronic models. Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous is currently in development and will premiere here in Perth on April 11 next year when the dinosaurs inhabit specially created, authentic Cretaceous era environments at the Museum.Read more News Niki Comparti