Museum & Science

The Australian Museum is Australias oldest museum: a museum of natural history and anthropology, its collections cover invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, mineralogy and palaeontology, and anthropology. Our

The Australian National Maritime Museum serves the whole Australian community and many overseas visitors, as well as representing Australia internationally. Our day-to-day focus is on its visitors, schools,

The Heritage Telecommunications Collection contains highly significant elements integral to Australia's national story. Be enthralled by displays of Morse equipment and telegraphy, telephones early to moder

Bathurst Observatory is located at two sites. One site is for research and study, while the other is for public viewing through telescopes, and also has a daytime space show in the new 200 seat theatrette.

The Bradman Museum & International Cricket Hall of Fame is located in the NSW Southern Highlands, in the town of Bowral. The Bradman Museum celebrates the stories and people who shape the spirit of cricket.

A former courthouse building (1869) is the site of a local history museum which focuses on Clarence Town as a terminal of navigation and river port. It's collection encompasses shipbuilding, exploration, ma

The new Cooma Car Museum in Bolaro Street is a collection of beautiful, rare vehicles and automobilia. Historical cars and motorbikes from the Cooma Monaro region together with motoring memorabilia and a ful

Crago Observatory is located on Bowen Mountain near North Richmond (NW of Sydney), and is operated by the Astronomical Society of NSW. The observatory houses a 40cm Dobsonian telescope, and is open on Satur

The famous Parkes observatory, as featured in the Australian movie The Dish, is a landmark radio telescope nearly 50 years old, yet still considered to be one of the best single dish radio telescopes in the wor

Cyberworlds: Computers & Connections, a permanent exhibition at Powerhouse Museum. Computers are the defining technology of our time. Unlike other machines that are designed to carry out a specialised task,

The Darby Falls Observatory is located on Observatory Road, Darby Falls, Cowra. At Darbys Falls Observatory visitors can explore the universe with one of the largest telescopes available to the public, a 500

The Dubbo Observatory lets you zoom to the moon and through the solar system. Discover the Milky Way and beyond with the most high-tech telescopes in the West. Featuring a 90 minute program that commences

Historic Waterworks - open and steaming. Step back in time to the 1880s when Goulburn was one of the first regional centres to supply piped water to its residents. The Goulburn Historic Waterworks has remain

The Green Point Observatory is operated by the Sutherland Astronomical Society (SAS) in Sydney, and houses 41cm and 35cm telescopes. Green Point Observatory is open for meetings every Thursday evening, comme

Built between 1817 and 1819, this popular landmark is located on the historic precinct of Macquarie Street and Queens Square in Sydney. Discover the daily lives of convicts and other occupants through exhi

A lively program of changing exhibitions features a collection of weird and wonderful memorabilia from some of the most notorious and sensational crimes in Australias judicial history. Step into the dark sid

Linden Observatory sits atop a rocky plateau in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. Established in the 1940's by renowned amateur telescope maker Ken Beames, the observatory is a dark sky haven f

PRESERVING AND PROMOTING LIVERPOOL'S CULTURAL HERITAGE, HISTORY AND STORIES Liverpool Regional Museum was established in 1989 to preserve and promote Liverpool's cultural heritage, history and stories throug

Australia's first and only museum dedicated to Mad Max 2. MAD MAX. It is a passion - an obsession which has seen now local man, Adrian Bennett, pack up and move halfway around the world to live his dream of

Star-struck fans of all the latest blockbusters and Hollywood starlets will finally be able to get their picture taken with their favourite movie stars. Among the wax figures stand the likenesses of Australi

Museum, Gallery and Function Centre Uralla Built in 1870, McCrossin's Mill is a lovingly restored three storey flour mill which now houses a multi-award winning museum, gallery and function centre. OPEN E

Migrants have journeyed to Australia and settled in the State of New South Wales both willingly and unwillingly, legally and illegally, as convicts, prisoners of war, as free or assisted immigrants or as refuge

Mudgee Observatory has been a private observatory for the past ten years though is now open to school groups, organized tours and any member of the general public who wishes to attend. Mudgee Observatory off

The Museum of Contemporary Art is located on the Sydney Harbour foreshore at West Circular Quay. It is Australia's only museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from acros

The Museum of Fire is a not for profit, registered charity and a true community museum. As Australias leading Fire Museum & Fire Collectibles Shop with over 30 years experience, we pride ourselves on quality

The Museum of Human Disease contains nearly 1,500 diseased human tissue specimens. Our comprehensive collection demonstrates hundreds of diseases and their complications including HIV/AIDs, cancer, strokes, hea

The Museum of Sydney is an imaginative museum offering the visitor a journey of discovery and wonder through Sydney 1788 and beyond. Fascinating exhibitions, films and state of the art technology spin stori

The Regimental Museum of the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers was commenced in 1957 in a single room in historic Lancer Barracks. After a few years the collection had filled the room and was still grow

Port Macquarie Observatory is run by Port Macquarie Astronomical Association Inc. a non-profit voluntary group of people interested in all things astronomy and science. A new observatory is currently being

The Museums Discovery Centre (MDC) is a collaboration between the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Australian Museum (AM) and Sydney Living Museums. Inside the Museums Discovery Centre you will fi

The Powerhouse Museum, also known as Powerhouse Ultimo is a contemporary museum in the heart of Sydney with a focus on arts, science, innovation and design. The Powerhouse Museum has a unique and diverse col

Powerhouse Parramatta - building our new flagship in the fastest growing and most culturally diverse communities in Australia Your stories. Your collection. Your new museum. Powerhouse Parramatta is a onc

The Powerhouse, through its renewal and across its platforms, will redefine museums in the 21st century by renegotiating the terms of engagement with communities; by radically returning to and reckoning with it

Siding Spring Observatory is home to some of the worlds major telescopes and Australias largest optical telescopes. Siding Spring Observatory is located next to the picturesque Warrumbungle National Park nea

Established 1979 The Society for Preservation of the Artefacts of Surgery & Medicine is the sole owner and governing body of the SPASM Museum. We invite you to visit on one of our open days either as a ca

The Sydney Cricket Ground Museum is a working historical registrar offering all members of the public the chance to relive some of Australia's most famous sporting conquests and incredible moments. In 1851 C

Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Museum + Lookout Step back in time to relive the magic of the Sydney Harbour Bridge - from its beginnings, the planning and construction, to the excitement of the opening ceremony

The Sydney Jewish Museum gives history a voice through collecting and preserving historic objects, commemorating and educating, with a mission to challenge visitors' perceptions of morality, social justice, dem

Sydney Living Museums cares for a group of 12 of the most important historic houses, gardens and museums in NSW on behalf of the people of NSW. Our purpose is to enrich and revitalise people's lives with Syd

Sydney Observatory is a museum and education centre set in gardens overlooking Sydney Harbour. The historic site commands some of the best views in Sydney. Discover the visible history of Sydney Observatory

The Sydney Tramway Museum is Australias oldest tramway museum and the largest in the southern hemisphere, located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney. The Sydney Tramway Museum has a whole days worth

The University of Sydney has one of the largest and finest university collections of antiquities, art, ethnography, natural history and scientific instruments in Australia. While these collections are used

The Temora Aviation Museum inspires the community to acknowledge the role played by Australia's historic ex-military aircraft, and encourages visitors to learn and be inspired through its collection of aircraft

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), at the Narrabri Observatory, is an array of six 22-m antennas used for radio astronomy. Located about 25 km west of the town of Narrabri in rural NSW (about 500

The Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) operates the Australia Telescope, a set of eight individual radio telescopes, as a national research facility for use by Australian and international researchers

The Australian Museum has an international reputation in the fields of natural history and indigenous research, community programs and exhibitions. The Museum was established in 1827 and is Australias first

The King's Castle is Australia's only chain of permanent exhibition of artefacts that were owned by Elvis Presley. Featuring authentic items from Elvis Presley's home, Graceland, The Kings Castle gives you

Financed with 45,000 gallons of rum, Governor Macquarie's 'Rum Hospital' provided 200 beds for convict patients. Today the Mint houses Sydney Living Museums' head office, venue hire spaces, a restaurant and

The Rocks Discovery Museum is housed in three buildings dating back to 1844. The remains of Samson's Cottage (1844) were incorporated into a reconstruction of this early house in 1991. The Museum opened

Vaucluse House is one of Sydney's few 19th-century mansions still surrounded by its original gardens and wooded grounds. When the towering colonial explorer, barrister and politician William Charles Wentwor

Warrumbungle Observatory, otherwise known as "Tenby Observatory", is located on the Timor Road that leads out to the Warrumbungle National Park, 10 kilometres from Coonabarabran. The Warrumbungle Observatory

The Wollongong Science Centre and Planetarium is operated by the University of Wollongong as a public science centre. The centre includes a planetarium (BlueScope Steel Star Theatre), observatory, laser ligh