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The place behind the visit.
A collection of fossils, a garden of giants and three decades at Gold Creek offer several ways into the story of the museum.
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A museum of prehistoric life
Established in 1993, the National Dinosaur Museum is one of the largest permanent displays of dinosaur and other prehistoric fossil material in Australia.
Its exhibitions trace the history of life on Earth from the Triassic to the Ice Age, and many of the fossils it shows are not dinosaurs at all.
Models, skeletons and fossils
The museum describes more than 150 dinosaur models, 23 complete skeletons and over 300 displays of individual fossils, alongside crystals, minerals and meteorites. Several of the dinosaurs are animatronic.
The museum describes its own research and education work on its website; this page does not add claims of its own.
The museum today
Privately owned by its directors since 2011, the museum turned 30 in April 2023 and won the Tourist Attractions category of the Canberra Region Tourism Awards in 2023 and 2024.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
- National Dinosaur Museum: About us
- National Dinosaur Museum: Exhibits
- National Dinosaur Museum: Visit us
- Wikipedia: National Dinosaur Museum
Links lead to the original publishers.
