Western Australian Museum

Western Australian Museum is the official channel of the museum with the same name. It mainly uploads content promoting the museum in vlog-style educational videos.
== Background ==
Initially the museum was founded in 1891 as the Geological Museum, before becoming the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery in 1897https://museum.wa.gov.au/about/background-mission#:~:text=Established%20in%201891%20in%20the,Australian%20Museum%20and%20Art%20Gallery.https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006298b.htm. In 1959 the botanical, art gallery, and the museum all became separate institutionshttps://museum.wa.gov.au/about/background-mission#:~:text=During%201959. Under the Museum Act of 1969 it became a statutory authority under the Culture and the Arts portfoliohttps://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_1470.pdf/$FILE/Museum%20Act%201969%20-%20%5B01-e0-04%5D.pdf?OpenElement. The main current building was completed in 2020, the museum's storage and laboratory facilities are located in Welshpool. Six main sites are organised by the museum, the State Museum Boola Bardip in Perth, Maritime and Shipwrecks museums in Fremantle, Museum of the Great Southern in Albany, Museum of Geraldton, and Museum of the Goldfields in Kalgoorlie-Boulderhttps://museum.wa.gov.au/museums.
== Content ==
Tides & Islands -- Kimberley Dreaming, uploaded on 10 November 2011 at 3 minutes long with over 1,100 views, 5 likes and 1 comment as of 23 March 2024 was the first video uploaded to the channel, it is a vlog-style film recorded as part of the Marine Life of Kimberley project field triphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtLcYObLik. The video served as an introduction to a 12-day (23 video) video diary focusing on the Kimberley, being the first series of the Tides & Islands vlog series.
The most popular video on the Western Australian Museum YouTube channel as of 23 March 2024 is, Dinosaur invades Apple store, with over 442,400 views, 3,800 likes and 237 comments, the video was uploaded on 5 October 2012https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UL9qtHCTIo and features a puppeteered Australovenator in an Apple iOS store in Garden City shopping centre, serving as a promotion to the WA Maritime Museum's Dinosaur Petting Zoo performance from 4 to 14 October 2012.
== See also ==
* Western Australia
** The University of Western Australia
* Australia
** National Museum of Australia
** National Library of Australia
** National Archives of Australia
== References ==
Category:Australian YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011