AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM OPEN DAY
- Author:
- Amelia G
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- Monday, 25 May 2009
From kangaroo skeletons to live snakes, taxidermy pelicans to fossilised cicadas, butterflies to crystals and dinosaurs to DNA, The Australian Museum is home to 16 million bizarre and beautiful natural history specimens and cultural artefacts – but only 3-5% of them are on public display at any given time.
The Museum’s free Open Day next month will be a unique opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes, as they open all doors to the public for the first time since their extensive renovations over the last few years.
Take a tour of the Museum’s working laboratories and hidden scientific specimens or explore the new Collections and Research Building with its state of the art facilities including a forensic DNA laboratory.
Beyond the public galleries is a team of research scientists helping to track our past, save unique species and plan our environmental future, and visitors will be able to ask them all the anthropologic or paleontological quandaries they’ve always wondered.
An evocative program of talks by Museum scientists is scheduled for the day including ‘The Sex Life of Invertebrates’, ‘Dinosaurs of NSW’, ‘The Case of the Budgie Smuggler – and other stories of wildlife forensics, ‘Birds & The City’ and ‘Pompeii of the Pacific’.
The free Open Day will also an opportunity to see the Museum’s popular current exhibitions Climate Change: Our Future, Our Choice and When Mammoth’s Roamed, as well as explore the permanent collections and interactive spaces.
July 5. Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney. 9320 6000 or australianmuseum.net.au
Photo by Carl Bento © Australian Museum
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