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Western Australian Museum Perth (Visit this link)

International exhibitions and MuseumLink displays and events enhance the Museum's permanent displays. Absorb the atmosphere and enjoy the contemporary, historical and cultural exhibits.

The Western Australian Museum maintains an active exhibition programme focused around its permanent installations. These permanent exhibitions are supplemented with temporary displays and exhibitions, generated from the Museum's own research and collections or in the form of touring exhibitions.

Journey through time from the origins of the universe 12 billion years ago to the birth of our Solar System and the evolution of life on Earth. On the way you can find a tube containing about 10 million pre-solar diamonds, see our world famous meteorite collection and rocks from Mars and the Moon.

Travel along the shores and beneath the waters of the Dampier Archipelago. This gallery presents the results of the four-year partnership between the Woodside Energy Ltd. and the Western Australian Museum to explore the regions marine diversity. From the grotesque to the beautiful, the common and the bizarre, this gallery showcases a selection of organisms recorded by Museum scientists to give visitors a glimpse into the beauty and diversity of the marine habitats.

This exhibition tells the story of Western Australia from dinosaurs to Indigenous beginnings and the environmental issues that our state faces today. Through the interaction between people, the land and the natural environment, this exhibition explores the impact each has had on the other. The Western scientific approach is compared with Aboriginal people?s ways of understanding and working the land. Be mesmerized by the 10-metre video montage of changing images of Western Australian land and people. Be amazed by the ferocious roar from the full-size model of the Carnataurus dinosaur. Presented in partnership with Lotterywest.

Each department in the WA Museum is represented in the Discovery Centre. Do you want to see dinosaur fossils, stone-age tools, meteorites preserved vertebrates and invertebrates or perhaps some living frogs? The Discovery Centre has interactive displays and activities where people of all ages can get busy with their hands and minds. It is also the place to go to find answers to your scientific questions or to identify a biological specimen.

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au