Museum Of Central Australia

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    Larapinta Dr, Alice Springs, 0870
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Lonely Planet review

Deftly designed displays at the Museum Of Central Australia recall the days of megafauna - when hippo-sized wombats and 3m-tall flightless birds roamed the woodlands of 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. Meticulously pinned insects, pieces of meteorite, stuffed reptiles and marsupials, and indigenous artefacts provide a window into the Centre's past.

Upstairs, the Strehlow Research Centre commemorates the anthropological work of Professor Theodor George Henry Strehlow among the Arrernte people, particularly at the Hermannsburg Mission where he was born, with a small display of Arrernte artefacts.