Museum · Darlinghurst
Australian Museum
1 William Street, Sydney 2010
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Australia's oldest museum, facing Hyde Park, devoted to natural history and the cultures of First Nations and Pacific peoples. Free general entry covers galleries on dinosaurs, minerals, Australian wildlife and birds, while ticketed touring exhibitions fill its exhibition hall. It turns 200 in 2027.
Permanent exhibitions
- Surviving Australia: Australian animals and their environments
- Dinosaurs Gallery
- Minerals Gallery
- Garrigarrang: Sea Country (First Nations gallery)
- Wansolmoana: Pacific gallery
- 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum (Westpac Long Gallery)
- Birds of Australia
- Wild Planet
