Museum event: Search & Discover
- Audience Type:
- General, Kids
- Event Type:
- Current exhibition
- Location:
- Level 2, Search & Discover
Located on Level 2, Search & Discover is the Australian Museum's information and resource centre - open to anyone with a scientific, cultural or natural world question or query they'd like to ask. Here is your chance to peer through a microscope, touch and feel real specimens, browse through our fascinating collections and catch up on the latest news!
Things to do
- Talk to an expert. Is that a rock or fossil you found in your garden? Is the spider living in your kitchen dangerous? Our friendly expert staff are on hand to help answer your questions.
- Hone your own research skills. Use reference books, the latest magazines and online resources to solve your own queries and work on your own projects.
- Hold and examine real Museum specimens. Look under the microscope and discuss your findings with Museum experts.
- Touch and feel a preserved platypus. Take close-range photos of many other specimens on display. Kids (and big kids) love feeling the different textures that you'd never normally get to touch.
- Meet our rotating displays of live animals, from native cockroaches to stick insects.
- Learn about the human story and examine the physical evidence (skull casts, replica artefacts and real stone tools) that help us piece together the evolutionary journey of modern humans.
- Browse the collection drawers and see everything from beetles and parrots to mammal bones and shells right up close.
- Submit an inquiry online. Made an interesting discovery and need to know more? Fill out this from online and we'll get back to you soon.
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- School assignment help
- research on Australian wildlife
- research Australian animals
- research Australian birds
- research Australian fish
- research Australian insects
- research Australian minerals
- ask a scientist
- ask a researcher
- scientific question
- information centre
- information desk
- museum resource centre
- behind the scenes at the museum
- search and discover
- S&D
- school projects
- resources
- donation
- ask a question
- inquiry
- enquiry
- identification
- identify
- enquiry centre
- Australian spiders
- Australian snakes
- Australian frogs
- Australian reptiles
- Australian mammals
- monotremes
- marsupial mammals
- duck-billed platypus
- echidna
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Stuart Humphreys
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Carl Bento
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Egyptian Treasures: art of the pharaohs
13 Sep 09 – 06 Dec 09
Discover the significance of art in ancient Egypt through the eyes of Ramose, a young apprentice learning ancient secrets from a master craftsman. Explore over 250 stunning artefacts from exquisitely decorated coffins, hieroglyphs, mummies, jewellery, bowls and much more. Some objects are on display as a world first!
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