The Exhibition Design team use some very expensive state-of-the-art software to design exhibitions on the OS X platform. One application called...
Continue readingWe Dig Dinosaurs is a hands-on, interactive experience where students can uncover a large buried fossil, use tools to excavate a fossil...
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The Japanese Shame-Faced Crab, Calappa japonica Ortmann, 1892.
The Japanese shame-faced crab was originally...
Continue readingOne thing we didn’t quite expect when we published this website, was the volume of vodcasts and videos that we would be accommodating; a very...
Continue readingThis video shows the WA Museum's exhibition and design installation team setting-up Nick Cave - the exhibition which showed at the...
Continue readingThrough 2010, the Western Australian Museum - Albany underwent a major refurbishment of its long term exhibitions. The refurbished gallery went...
The following gallery features artworks held in Marine History's Artwork collection, including pieces by George Forsyth, Frank Norton and EJ...
Former staff member Ian Crawford was the Western Australian Museum’s first Curator of Anthropology & Archaeology, appointed in 1961. Between...
The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II) is Australia’s greatest naval tragedy. Its disappearance in 1941 without a trace left a legacy of uncertainty for decades...
The Marine Life of North Western Australia Project is a three-year marine biodiversity research program...
The Dampier Archipelago lies off the north-western coast of Australia, approximately 1550 km north of Perth...
Alcoa Frog Watch is dedicated to providing information on all aspects of Western Australian frogs...
On 27 May 1967, 90.77% of Australian voters recorded the largest ever 'Yes' vote in a referendum to alter the Australian constitution...
Cockatoo Care was introduced in September 2001 as a joint initiative of the Water Corporation and the Western Australian Museum....
Creature Feature: The Japanese Shame-Faced CrabThe Japanese shame-faced crab was originally discovered in Tokyo Bay, Japan but has since been found as far away as Africa and can be found in depths up to ~250 m... read more