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Cook & Phillip ParkHyde Park

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Make the most of your visitDownload the Australian Museum app, using our free WiFi � Highlights in English or Simplified Chinese

� Games, including a treasure hunt exploring the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum

� Audio tours including Mammoths – Giants of the Ice Age in English or Mandarin

Eat and drink at No. 1 WilliamEnjoy one of Sydney’s best kept secrets for panoramic views of the Royal Botanic Garden and the city skyline – all while you enjoy High Tea or a glass of wine with your lunch.

Shop at the Australian Museum storeTake home a unique memento or gift. Our store is packed with a great range of original works by Aboriginal and Pacific Islander artists and designers as well as beautiful homewares, beauty products and toys with a distinctly Aussie flair.

ContactAustralian Museum1 William Street Sydney NSW 2010 AustraliaT +61 2 9320 6000 E tours@austmus.gov.auW australianmuseum.net.au

Getting hereWe are on the corner of College and William Streets – across the road from Hyde Park and opposite St Mary’s Cathedral.

Use Sydney Trip Planner to plan your journey here by public transport. The museum is a short stroll from the train stations of Museum, Town Hall and St James.

The Hop-on, Hop-off Big Bus stops right outside our door.

HoursOpen daily 9.30am–5pm

Please check our website for General Admission fees (children under 16 free with a paying adult).

Joining the dotsWe are all connectedWild Planet joins the dots from our collective ancestral histories to the evolution and the fates of extinct creatures.

This impressive exhibit of over 400 specimens that we share our planet with, explores this connection.

Meet nature’s giants – the Sperm Whale, Asian Elephant and giraffe. Come face-to-face with a lion, tiger and bear.

See a 42,000 year old baby mammothMammoths – Giants of the Ice AgeMeet baby Lyuba, the world’s most complete woolly mammoth ever found. Explore her Ice Age world through life-size models, original skeletons, and the interactive displays.

Joust with mammoth tusks, touch the teeth of the colossal mastodon, and feel mammoth fur between your fingertips.

Until 15 May 2018An additional fee applies to this exhibition.

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Cover image: Shirley Purdie, Eagle and Crow Dreaming, 2009 © Shirley Purdie/Licensed by Viscopy, 2017

Esme Russell, Shell work Harbour Bridge, 2014 © Esme Russell

Carved face, Kalabu village, Maprik district, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Collected 1964.

All photographs © Australian Museum, excluding Mammoths © Field Museum, Chicago

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Lyuba is owned by The Yamal-Nenets Regional Museum Exhibition Complex named after I. S. Shemanovsky. Exhibition created by The Field Museum, Chicago

Meet an Australian dinosaurMeet Australia’s own dinosaur – the MuttaburrasaurusFrom carnivorous killers to plant-eating giants, our Dinosaurs gallery features 10 complete dinosaur skeletons, nine-life-sized models and realistic animations.

Get up close and personal with a Stegosaurus, and a life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex complete with internal organs! See teeth up to 30cm long on the world’s first anatomically precise T.rex.

Play for freeKidspace – under 5sA dedicated 'mini-museum' designed to stimulate young minds. Kidspace also caters for curious crawlers with a specially designed safe area. We offer pram parking, bottle warming, and a change and feeding space. Children can take part in a free group activity every weekday at 2pm during school term.

Search & Discover – all agesTalk to an expert and use real scientific equipment. With thousands of objects, animal specimens and fossils at your fingertips, this is the place where you can get really hands-on.

Children’s lunches are available at No. 1 William, on L4.

Experience Australia’s diversityAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander GalleriesConnect with the oldest continuous living culture in our First Nations galleries which celebrate the rich history and contemporary vibrancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Bayala Nura: Yarning Country and Garrigarrang: Sea Country feature over 300 cultural objects from weaponry, body ornaments, tools, film and contemporary arts and sculptural objects.

Special events range from Aboriginal meditation to basket weaving. Visit: australianmuseum.net.au/whatson

Tours* range from didgeridoo, dance or storytelling performances; demonstrations of boomerangs and spear making; through to our Aboriginal educators sharing their knowledge.

*Minimum numbers apply. Must be booked in advance. Visit: australianmuseum.net.au/event/tourist-packages

World-famous mineralsOur famous Minerals exhibition is renowned for its mineralogical diversity, crystal perfection, and representation of the geological richness of the Australian outback.

All minerals are brilliantly lit, showing off their fine features, breathtaking colours and unique characteristics.

Our storyThe magnificently restored Westpac Long Gallery showcases 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum – 100 objects and 100 people that have influenced the museum, nation and region. You’ll get to know a bit more about legendary Aussies such as cricketer Sir Donald Bradman, Aboriginal rights activist Vincent Lingiari, and pop princess Kylie Minogue.

Take home a copy of the beautiful coffee table book, by the same name, from the Australian Museum store.

Visit the Pacific regionThe world’s largest Pacific cultural collectionPacific Spirit reveals the rich history and ceremonial life of the peoples from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. See sacred Malagan masks from Papua New Guinea, ceremonial poles from New Ireland and hand-carved Kava drums from Samoa.

Book tickets to one of our Night Talks to learn how the Pacific peoples are adapting to rising seas and other local challenges. Visit: australianmuseum.net.au/whatson

Australian animalsSee real specimens of some of the world’s deadliest creatures from the outback, bush and beach in Surviving Australia including our:

� top 10 venomous snakes

� sharks, crocodiles and the blue-ringed octopus

� funnel-web and redback spiders

Discover more about our most endangered and extinct species including a rare specimen of a Tasmanian Tiger, which was hunted to extinction in the 1930s.

Plus you can touch one of our taxidermy specimens of kangaroos and koalas for a safe photo opportunity!