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5 unusual facts about Western Australian Museum


George Pitt Morison

In 1890 he travelled to Europe to study at the Académie Julian in Paris and in the early 1930s worked as chief curator of art at the Western Australian Museum Art Gallery.

Prethopalpus attenboroughi

The millimeter-long spider was described in 2012 by Dr Barbara Baehr of the Queensland Museum and Professor Mark Harvey of the Western Australian Museum.

Roger Swainston

He then worked in the fish department of the Western Australian Museum and took part in a variety of scientific expeditions.

Ronald Eric Johnstone

Ronald Eric Johnstone (born 1949) is an Australian ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum for many years.

Rose de Freycinet

In 2001 an expedition organized by the Western Australian Museum "conducted research, search and survey aimed at adding to the body of knowledge about the de Freycinets, their ship and their camp."


Wiluna, Western Australia

This meteorite was a H5-class object, specimens were collected anwere housed in the Western Australian Museum.


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