Museum Of Central Australia Photo: The Museum Of Central Australia

Museum of Central Australia, located in Alice springs, talks about the unique nature of the Central region of green continent, its geological history, the evolution of landscapes and the amazing creatures that inhabited these places hundreds and thousands of years ago.

Fragments of meteorites, fossils and interactive displays are the main "witnesses" geological history of Central Australia since the Big Bang to our days.

The layout of the ancient reservoir Alkota is the main location of research in the region, demonstrates some amazing fossils of megafauna discovered here - a giant freshwater crocodile and the largest bird that ever lived on earth.

An outstanding exhibition of Central Australian birds, mammals, reptiles and insects will allow visitors to identify some of the animals they might see while travelling through the Red Centre.

The Museum houses a research center "Strehlow" that holds one of the largest in Australia collections of films, sound recordings, archival records and artifacts related to the ceremonial life of the local aboriginal people. This collection for several decades, anthropological studies collected Lutheran Minister Carl Strehlow and his son.

The Museum also hosts traveling exhibition of the Library of the Northern Territories, dedicated to the air raids on Darwin in February 1942. During the Second World war along the Stuart highway-the Highway connecting Darwin and Alice springs were located defense forces, who were preparing to defend the Northern part of Australia. In the exposition you can see photographs and archival materials.

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