Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is a dynamic source of reliable scientific information and a touchstone for informed debate about some of the most pressing environmental and social challenges facing our region: the loss of biodiversity, a changing climate and the search for cultural identity.

Underpinning our research is an irreplaceable collection of international standing – more than 18 million objects representing a timeline of the environmental and cultural histories of the Australian and Pacific regions.

Our collection holds many artefacts from Indigenous Australia and the Pacific and contains irreplaceable fossils, minerals, meteorites and gemstones that provide a geological perspective of the planet. It houses specimens of native Australian mammals, birds, reptiles and fish plus countless invertebrates from a diversity of land and marine environments.

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