The Australian PlantBank
The Australian PlantBank is a science and research facility of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust and is located at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan. It houses the Trust’s seedbank and research laboratories that specialise in horticultural research and conservation of Australian native plant species, particularly those from New South Wales.
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The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden
Welcome to The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah – Australia’s premier cool-climate botanic garden. Perfectly situated in the world heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains of New South Wales and with sweeping vistas over the mountains and more than 40,000 native, exotic and rare plants, the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden is a dream to visit at any
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The Australian Botanic Garden
Welcome to The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan. Four hundred hectares of Australian plants and lakeside picnic areas; home to the award-winning education and research facility, the Australian PlantBank. The sensation of the late 18th century in the field of botany was the discovery of a new continent filled with exotic plants unknown to the
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The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust is the oldest scientific institution in Australia. We have in our care the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, which is the nation’s oldest botanic garden, established in 1816 on the site of the first farm in 1788. The Trust also manages the Domain established in 1788 as the Governor’s
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Emmaville Mining Museum
The Emmaville Mining Museum is managed by a 355 volunteer committee of 12 under the Glen Innes Severn Council banner. The committee members are all local, dedicated people interested in promoting the Emmaville community. The Museum currently has over 4,000 mineral specimens and covers nearly every mineral sample local and overseas. In addition, the Museum
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Crystal Kingdom Mineral Museum
If you are a ‘Rockhound’ or not, you will love the mineral and fossil display at the Crystal kingdom. It’s great, it’s unique and it is world-class, and all from the local area only. Here you will find the world’s rarest and most colourfull zeolite crystals and other rare minerals together with rare fossils from
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Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park
The Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park presents the industrial history of the New South Wales Western Coalfield. We weave stories of the people who have been the backbone of the region’s mining industry for over 150 years around the tools and artefacts they used. Learn of the dangers of coalmining and comradeship of miners and
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Australian Museum
The Australian Museum (AM) was founded in 1827 and is the nation’s first museum. The AM has been transformed and visitors can now enjoy transformed spaces and updated amenities. Free general admission includes entry to all permanent exhibitions, as well as the Unsettled and Spark special exhibitions. The AM is internationally recognised as a natural
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Science Space
Welcome to Science Space. Science Space is located on the Innovation Campus University of Wollongong. Do you like to get “hands on”? Our two-storey Exhibit Hall has over 100 interactive exhibits relating to various themes like “The Machine “, “Dinosaurs, Fossils and Coal” and “Nanotechnology” Do you have an interest in astronomy? Visit the most advanced digital immersive planetarium in Australia
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Lake Tabourie Museum
The Museum’s exhibits include snakes, spiders, aboriginal artefacts, minerals, local marine life and shells with a number of historical furnished rooms on display, along with Australiana rural life, Aboriginal culture and local history. This history museum is located on the Princes Highway at Tabourie Lake, eleven kms south of Ulladulla on the South Coast of
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North Sydney Heritage Centre
If you are interested in your family history or the history of your North Sydney house, then the North Sydney Heritage Centre can help. The Heritage Centre at Stanton Library documents the social, cultural and built heritage of the local area. You can access a wide variety of primary and secondary material for research; the
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Lord Howe Island Museum
While Lord Howe Island is arguably the most beautiful island in the Pacific, it is also one of the most pristine natural environments, with a wealth of man-made history stretching back one and a half centuries. The Lord Howe Island museum is a treasure chest of natural history, fantastic collections, excellent learning resources, changing displays,
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Shear Outback
Shear Heritage–Shear Culture–Shear Fun! Shear Outback offers an insight into the hardworking men and women who helped shape the nation. Shearers, rousies, woolclassers, cooks and working dogs–meet the team; they’re all here at the Australian Shearers Hall of Fame. Take time to see the historic working Shearing Shed and enjoy a live shearing demonstration. The museum
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Manning Valley Rock Hounds Lapidary Club Gem and Mineral Museum
Manning Valley Rock Hounds Lapidary Club Gem and Mineral Museum -If you’re into rocks you’ll love Manning Valley’s rock club and museum. You’ll find them in the Grandstand Pavilion at the Wingham Showground between 10 and 4pm every Saturday. The Gem and Mineral Museum is constantly growing and changing. It features gems, fossils and minerals
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Australian Opal Centre
The Australian Opal Centre is a national museum being developed at the outback opal mining town of Lightning Ridge, Australia, to house the world’s greatest public collection of Australian opal and precious opalised fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs. An amazing two-storey, energy-efficient undergroundbuilding has been designed by Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin for the Australian Opal Centre. Watch the story of this building unfold
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Sydney Observatory
Geographically positioned on the highest point of Warrane (Sydney) and overlooking the harbour, Sydney Observatory is considered a site of significance for the Gadigal. The Observatory has a strong documented history of its colonial beginning, detailing historic astronomical and weather monitoring achievements by the people who contributed to its establishment in 1858 and its activities
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The Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum (Geocentre)
Behind the stone facade of the restored former Bond Store is another of Broken Hill’s must-see mining museums. The Albert Kersten Mining & Minerals Museum displays information on how the world’s largest deposit of silver lead and zinc was formed here in Broken Hill. It also houses a renowned collection of Broken Hill minerals. See
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Australian Fossil & Mineral Museum
The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum permanently houses the Somerville Collection of fossils and minerals – the lifetime work of Warren Somerville AM – and features some of the finest and rarest specimens of mineral crystals and fossils from around the world. The internationally renowned collection is displayed in two main exhibitions – the Fossil
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Zoology Museum
The Zoology Museum was established in 1969 as a teaching museum for the University of New England. The exhibits focus on the anatomy, taxonomy and evolutionary relationships within major Zoological groups and include several fine sequences of associated fossils. In the foyer, there is a display of old instruments used in the study of animals
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Age of Fishes Museum
Imagine a world ruled by fish! Long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, the mighty rivers of the Central West teemed with bizarre ancient fishes–armoured fishes, fishes with lungs and huge predators with jaws like crocodiles. Thousands of their fossils were found at Canowindra and give us a unique glimpse into life during the Devonian Period–the
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