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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2019-02-26 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2026-05-21 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006298b.htm State Records Office of WA Agency ID: AU WA A668 / A496 / A669 / A183 / A830 corporateBody Western Australian Museum AACR2 Geological Museum 1891 1897 Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 1897 1959 1891 Museum The Western Australian Museum was established in 1891. Originally known as the Geological Museum it was located in the old Perth Gaol. In 1897 it was renamed the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, before becoming the Western Australian Museum in 1959 when the Art Gallery and Museum became independent institutions.

The Western Australian Museum was established as a statutory body in 1969. As a statutory body it has five branches in addition to the Perth branch known as The Western Australian Museum. These include:

Museum of Geraldton, which focuses on the Mid West region of Western Australia; Museum of the Goldfields, which focuses on the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia; WA Maritime Museum, located in Fremantle focuses on Western Australia's relationship with all things maritime; Museum of the Great Southern, which focuses on the Southern region of Western Australia; and WA shipwrecks Museum, which is a maritime archaeology museum Nicolay, Charles Grenfell (1815 - 1897)

Nicolay's mineral collections are in the Museum.

 Records of the Western Australian Museum (1910 - )

Publisher 1910 -

 Nossiter, Clive (1877 - 1935)

1922 collector of reptile specimens

 Johnstone, Ronald Eric (1949 - )

Curator of Ornithology 2001 - 2014?

 Lipfert, Herman Franz Otto (Otto) (1864 - 1942)

Taxidermist 1897 - 1940

 Henderson, Graeme John (1947 - )

Senior Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology 1988 - 1992; Inaugural Director, Western Australian Maritime Museum 1992 - 2005

 Hodgkin, Ernest Pease (1908 - 1998)

Chairman of trustees 1982 - 1983

 Alexander, Wilfred Backhouse (1885 - 1965)

Keeper of Biology 1915 - 1920

 Tunney, John Thomas (1870 - 1929)

Collector 1895 - c.1906

 Storr, Glen Milton (1921 - 1990)

Curator of Ornithology and Herpetology 1965 - 1986

 Robson, Alan David (1945 - 2024)

Chair of Trustees 2012 - 2021

 Humphreys, William F. (Bill)

Invertebrate zoologist (later Head, Terrestrial Invertebrates) 1980 - 2005

 Main, Barbara York (1929 - 2019)

Trustee 1982 - 1996

 Butler, William Henry (Harry) (1930 - 2015)

Honorary Associate

 Bowyer-Bower, Thomas Henry (1862 - 1886)

Curator of ornithology c.1886

 Glauert, Ludwig (1879 - 1963)

Director 1954 - 1957; Keeper (later Curator)of Biological Collections 1920 - 1954; Keeper of Geology and Ethnology 1914 - 1920; Seconded to work on Pleistocene fossils, 1910 - 1914;

 Dortch, Charlie E. ( - 2014)

Curator of Anthropology 1970 - ?

 Serventy, Dominic Louis (1904 - 1988)

Fellow 1974 - 1988

 Bowdler, Sandra (1946 - )

Member, Board of Trustees 1984 - 1989

 Playford, Phillip Elliott (Phil) (1931 - 2017)

Honorary Associate 1963 - 2017

 Milligan, Alexander William (1858 - 1921)

Consulting Ornithologist 1901- ?

 Simpson, Edward Sydney (1875 - 1939)

Trustee 1935 - 1939

 Beazley, Lynda Dent (Lyn) (1944 - )

Trustee of the Board 1998 - 2001

 Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846 - 1916)

Director 1897 - 1916

 Marsh, Loisette Matilda (1929 - 2021)

Curator of marine invertebrates 1988 - 1993

 McNamara, Kenneth J.

Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences 1979 - 2007

 'Western Australian Museum', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Western Australian Museum Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [2] Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [2] Western Australian Government Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia Book Section: "Your Obedient Servant": the John Tunney Collection at the Western Australian Museum Chadwick, Ross "Your Obedient Servant": the John Tunney Collection at the Western Australian Museum Carlton Melbourne University Press 2008 The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise 255-77 Journal Article: The Fletcher Collection of Minerals at the Western Australian Museum: a Late 19th Century Gem Downes, Peter J.; Bevan, Alex W. R.; and Deacon, Geoff The Fletcher Collection of Minerals at the Western Australian Museum: a Late 19th Century Gem 2011 Australian Journal of Mineralogy 16 1 3-14 Journal Article: Otto Lipfert: Taxidermist to the Western Australian Museum, 1894-1942 Renwick, Doreen M. Otto Lipfert: Taxidermist to the Western Australian Museum, 1894-1942 1989 Early Days 10 1 57-72 Journal Article: L. Glauert. [obituary of Ludwig Glauert, Director Emeritus of the Western Australian Museum] Serventy, Donimic Louis L. Glauert. [obituary of Ludwig Glauert, Director Emeritus of the Western Australian Museum] 1963 Emu 63 1 74-75 Resource Section: Background and Mission Background and Mission Western Australian Museum 2018 Western Australian Museum Journal Article: Mineralogy at the Western Australian Museum Bevan, A. W. R.; and Downes, P. J. Mineralogy at the Western Australian Museum 2000 Australian Journal of Mineralogy 6 2 93-100 Resource Section: Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia Western Australian Government Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia Resource Section: Western Australian Museum [1] Western Australian Museum [1] Western Australian Government Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia Resource Section: Museum of Western Australia Museum of Western Australia Western Australian Government Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia Resource Section: Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [1] Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery [1] Western Australian Government Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia Journal Article: Professor Tennant's fossils: a founding collection of the Western Australian Museum Mcnamara, Kenneth J.; and Radford, Susan P. Professor Tennant's fossils: a founding collection of the Western Australian Museum 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 111-27 Journal Article: "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 Zylstra, Baige "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 59-74 Book Section: A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum Johnstone, R. E. A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum Cambridge, Mass. Nuttall Ornithological Club 2008 Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A. 165-98 Journal Article: "Nature's marvels": the value of collections extracted from colonial Western Australia Paterson, Alistair; and Witcomb, Andrea "Nature's marvels": the value of collections extracted from colonial Western Australia 2021 Journal of Australian studies 45 2 197-220 Book Section: The Western Australian Museum meteorite collection Bevan, A. W. R. The Western Australian Museum meteorite collection London Geological Society 2006 The history of meteorites and key meteorite collections: fireballs, falls and finds McCall, G. J. H., Bowden, A. J. and Howarth, R. J. 305-23 Book: Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery Woodward, Bernard Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery Perth Ames and Heller 1900 Journal Article: A catalogue of recent echinoderm type specimens in the Western Australian Museum, Perth Marsh, L. M.; Fromont, J. and Salotti, M. A catalogue of recent echinoderm type specimens in the Western Australian Museum, Perth 1999 Records of the Western Australian Museum 19 391-411 Book: Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery with a list of the Western Australian marsupials and birds in the collection Woodward, B. H. Guide to the contents of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery with a list of the Western Australian marsupials and birds in the collection Perth Committee of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 1900 Journal Article: Herbarium miscellany: WA Government Printer labels 1898 - 1985 Gibson, Neil Herbarium miscellany: WA Government Printer labels 1898 - 1985 2025 Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter 202 45-57 Book: Australia's national collections Lloyd, Clem and Sekuless, Peter Australia's national collections North Ryde, N.S.W. Cassell Australia 1980 Book Section: Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846-1916), museum director Crawford, Ian M. Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846-1916), museum director Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 567-568