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Alice Springs Cultural Precinct
The Alice Springs Cultural Precinct combines a natural-history collection, a stellar arts centre, a cemetery, a sculpture garden, sacred sites and an aviation museum, all connected by a walking path. You can wander around freely outside, accessing the cemetery and grounds, but a precinct pass provides entry to the exhibitions and displays.
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Araluen Centre
Alice Springs' art gallery, the Araluen Centre shows off an enviable collection of works spanning decades. Permanent exhibitions include the Albert Namatjira Gallery - the Territory's largest collection of the famous watercolourist's works - plus paintings by Albert's mentor Rex Battarbee and other artists from the Hermannsburg School. Other galleries exhibit acrylics from the central desert region, plus European-style oils and outdoor sculptures.
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Aviation Museum
The Aviation Museum is in the Connellan Hangar, Alice's original aerodrome. There are exhibits on pioneer aviation in the Territory and, of course, the famous Royal Flying Doctor Service (the old plane out the front belonged to John Flynn, founder of the service).
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Mbantua Gallery
With an enormous collection of works from Utopia, plus pots from Hermannsburg and art books, Mbantua makes for a great wander. The permanent collection upstairs interprets Aboriginal mythology and customs, and displays more paintings.
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Museum Of Central Australia
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.
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National Road Transport Hall of Fame
Transport tragics, the National Road Transport Hall of Fame is for you. Check out the chassis on the first Kenworth to come off the production line in 1971, and learn all you've ever wanted to know about road transport in the Territory. The enormous shed is jammed with restored Macks and a vintage car collection, as well as a couple of road trains and the bush-basher used by Lasseter's descendants in an attempt to find his elusive gold reef.
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Old Ghan Museum
Behind every good railway museum there's a team of dedicated volunteers. The Old Ghan Museum is no exception, displaying a collection of Ghan locomotives and carriages, plus memorabilia. The museum fires up an old engine to take visitors down the single-gauge track and back, on Sunday at (returns ). The museum's located 10km south of Alice Springs on the Stuart Hwy.
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Papunya Tula
The Western Desert art movement began at Papunya in 1971, and today this Aboriginal-owned centre displays some of the most sought-after art. Papunya Tula works with around 150 artists, most painting at the centre's Kintore Studio.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service Base
All communities and stations within a 600km (373mi) radius of town are serviced by Alice's Royal Flying Doctor Service base. Entry is by half-hour tours that run continuously all day. Tours include a 10-minute video, a squiz at an operational control room, and a wander through the museum where historical displays include some fascinating ancient medical gear.
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Telegraph Station Historical Reserve
Laying the Overland Telegraph Line across Australia's harsh Centre was no easy task, as you'll discover at the small museum at the evocative Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. The old stone station dates to the early 1870s and operated until 1932. It later served as a welfare home for Aboriginal children of mixed descent, until 1963.
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