The Western Australian Museum acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of their ancestral lands, waters and skies.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this digital guide may include images, sounds, and names of now deceased persons.

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Welcome explorers

Each time researchers descend into our coastal and open waters, they discover a dynamic and challenging series of habitats overflowing with biodiversity.

Knowing what this subaquatic universe holds is the key to understanding how to protect and conserve it, and this is what museum researchers do.  They are on the front line exploring, discovering, recording, archiving and educating.

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Hero Objects

In a wide shallow display case on the Museum's floor are many colourful coral resting on sand.

Coral reef life box

Coral communities

The blue room

The Blue Room

Interactive Experience

In the corridor leading to the Down Under gallery is a white wall with a sculpture of coral on it. Colours are projected onto it.

Coral Wall

Interactive Experience

A strange creature that looks like a bundle of feathers makes a dark shadow in front of a Museum diver's hands.

Scientists working underwater.
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The Western Australian Museum acknowledges and respects the Traditional Owners of their ancestral lands, waters and skies.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that this digital guide may include images, sounds, and names of now deceased persons.