Clem Burns Heritage Award winning model, 2006. The WA Museum Geraldton will hold the 20th annual Clem Burns Heritage Award in 2009.

20th Clem Burns Heritage Award

Celebrate the heritage of the Midwest with the 20th Clem Burns Heritage Award. Students in Years 3-7 are eligible to enter with many prizes on offer. The 2009 task requires students to research and construct a model of an early building of interest in their local area. Details will be in schools early in Term 1 with the closing date the 22nd May.

Discover the many stories that extend from the desert to the Abrolhos Islands at the Western Australian Museum Geraldton through one of our many onsite education programs.

Mid West Gallery

Learn about the lives of the local Yamaji people, including the bush food and medicine plants they have used for thousands of years. See the influence of European settlement and the development of key industries such as mining, farming and fishing. Discover the unique native fauna and flora and the amazing biodiversity that exists in the region.

Shipwreck Gallery

Four shipwrecks reveal their treasures and artefacts from the deep. Objects from everyday life, navigation instruments, shimmering silver coins, bronze cannons and implements used for drinking, eating and living everyday life at sea. From murder and mutiny on the Batavia in 1629 to the inspiring ingenuity of the Zeewijk survivors, uncover the stories of tragedy and triumph in the Abrolhos Islands.

Pride of the Fleet

Why is the HMAS Sydney II Memorial in Geraldton? This exhibition is a personal and poignant account of a ship lost at sea during the Second World War, and its discovery in March 2008.