This is Australia's first and the largest natural history museum. It includes a collection of Australian wildlife, excellent gallery of Aboriginal history, exhibitions on geology, biodiversity, skeletons, dinosaurs and a modern computerized Search & Discover Centre with labs and access to a vast array of reference material.
Displaying its combination of the latest technology, ongoing research and impressive collections, the Australia Museum has always something new for you. You will be offered to explore exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Internet access, mini-labs, demonstrations, to speak with trained scientific staff.
Biodiversity- life supporting life- explores the rich variety of life in Australia. Find out more about plants, animals and ecosystems and how they influence on each other. The Australian Museum's collection of Australian Birds and Insects is the best in the country. Enjoy the colours and sounds of the unique birds. Discover some of the world's most extraordinary bugs, beetles and butterflies and some notorious spiders.
Planet of Minerals offers a journey into the mysteries of the earth's inner core.
Discover a culture more than 100,000 years old in the new Indigenous Australians exhibition. From the Dreamtime to the struggle for self-determination and land rights, the exhibition tells the stories of Australia's first people in their own words. Skeletons provide a fascinating perspective of natural history and some regard this gallery to be the backbone of the Museums!
More Than Dinosaurs is the Museum's permanent display of dinosaurs and Australia's own ancient megafauna. Follow the timeline back 4600 million years and discover stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex along the way.
Rated in the six best natural history museums in the world.
