Your support for the WA Museum makes all the difference. Donate now.
Share your passion! Support the WA Museum's work now and into the future
Connect with the WA Museum through your support for the Foundation for the WA Museum. Be part of the adventure as the WA Museum explores the past, questions the present and shapes the future of Western Australia.
Your donation to the Foundation flows into the Discovery Endowment Fund and is invested to provide long-term funding to the WA Museum through the Foundation's annual grants program, supporting five key pillars of the WA Museum's work.
Collections and Aquisitions
Education, Learning and Outreach
Exhibitions and Storytelling
Research and Fieldwork
State-wide Activities
You can give to the Foundation for the WA Museum in different ways
Gifts of $2 - $999
Every dollar is important. Your gift will support the WA Museum's work, focusing on the Museum's acquisitions and collections development; exhibition activities; research and fieldwork; education, learning and outreach programs and state-wide activities.
Turn generosity into discovery: Become a Foundation for the WA Museum Patron
Donate $1,000 or more to become one of our Patrons and develop a deeper connection to the WA Museum. As a Foundation for the WA Museum Patron, you will be part of a community of individuals who share your passion for the WA Museum - and you will have a world of discoveries at your fingertips.
Why join the Foundation's Patron Program?
- Share your passion: Support the WA Museum's work now and into the future
- Exclusive access to a world of discoveries: Enjoy behind-the scenes tours and activities and early access to events
- Recognition of your generosity: Be acknowledged for your invaluable support
- Involvement - and fun: Receive special invitations to intimate Patron events with WA Museum scientists and curators, and socialise with a group of like-minded, enthusiastic WA Museum supporters
- Palaeontology & Wildlife Family Fun: An afternoon at WA Museum Boola Bardip for Foundation Patrons, their children and grandchildren in March
- WA Museum Speaker Series at Lawson Flats: Receive complimentary access to hear WA Museum curators and scientists in the stylish Art Deco surrounds of the Lawson Flats private member club
- Patron Soirée: We invite you to celebrate the impact of your generosity and explore a world of discoveries with your fellow Foundation Patrons
"... the whole vibe at the Museum has been so welcoming and inclusive. Am very impressed."
Patron Program member
"Thank you so much for inviting me ... I enjoyed the evening very much. Alec's talk was a definite highlight and I was particularly intrigued to hear about the amazing link between a local sea sponge and potential to fight breast cancer. How amazing!"
Patron Program member
"How fortunate are we to have been included in such a 'once in a lifetime' event?"
Patron Program member
Patrons are acknowledged in the following way:
- Patrons $1,000+
- Patrons $5,000+
- Patrons $10,000+
- Major Donors $100,000+
