The Western Australian Museum is the State’s premier cultural organisation, housing WA’s scientific and cultural collection. For over 120 years the Museum has been making the State’s natural and social heritage accessible and engaging through research, exhibitions and public programs.

The WA Museum Boola Bardip opened in the Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday 21 November 2020 with nine days of celebration. Today, the Museum has seven public locations across our State – and a Collections and Research Centre that houses more than eight million objects.

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.

The exhibition of paintings from the Spinifex Arts Project highlights and celebrates the story of the Spinifex People and their return to country in the 1980s.

Which led to the negotiation of their successful Native Title Agreement with the Western Australian State Government in 2000.

The Lester Prize exhibits all our traits—the heroic, the despicable, the humble, the deplorable, the principled and the fallen.

When you look upon these portraits of others, you can’t help but see yourself reflected.The Lester Prize captures what it means to be ‘them’, to be ‘me’ and to be ‘us’.

Each of the Museum’s exhibitions explores these themes through collections, research and the perspectives of communities.

Voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, recognising the primary rights of Australia’s first peoples in practising and expressing their cultural heritage.

Reclaim the Void was born from Ngalia elders in Leonora, Western Australia, expressing their pain and grief at ‘those gaping mining holes left all over our country’.

The vision is to cover a mining pit with a large-scale ‘dot’ artwork made up of thousands of handmade circular rag-rugs woven from discarded fabric. 

Little Learners – Calling all junior paleontologists! Join us for an educator-led early learning experiences for big minds and little hands, ages 2 – 5.

Every session involves 45 minutes of educator-led activities and 15 minutes visiting the focus of our session in the Museum.

We recommend pre-purchasing tickets online for traveling exhibitions and during school holidays to avoid delays.