• the Goliath Tarantula – a South American spider that can grow as large as a dinner plate
  
• 20,000-year-old Diprotodon fossils
  
• the jaws from a Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
  
• the Tasmanian Tiger - one of 140 specimens of extinct species in the Museum’s collection
  
• a rug made from 75 Platypus skins
  
• the largest collection of Funnel-web Spiders in Australia
  
• a King Penguin collected by Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic Expedition in 1912–13
  
• a Torres Strait Island dance mask acquired by the Museum in 1907
  
• items collected by Captain James Cook and spears in the Pacific Collection
  
• a giant crab and lobster in the Marine Invertebrates Collection
  
• ‘painted ladies’ opals in the Gem Vault
  
• fluorescing parrots
  
• exotic butterfly and beetle collection
  
• the taxidermy lab
  
• opalised fossils 110 million years old

• Bookings essential and required 3 pm two working days prior
  
• Children 12 years and under not permitted
  
• Tours limited to maximum of 11 people per tour
  
• Exclusive group tours for 6 or more people can be arranged on request - ideal for corporate team-building events, clubs, social groups and community groups. Conditions apply.
  
• Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

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