Alice Springs
Head to Desert Park, where the creatures of central Australia are all on display in one place, including many that are extremely difficult to find out on…
Must-see attractions in Alice Springs
Alice Springs
For a small town, Alice Springs has a thriving arts scene and the Araluen Arts Centre is at its heart. There is a 500-seat theatre and four galleries with…
Alice Springs
A network of meandering trails leads through this lovely arid zone botanic garden, which was founded by the prominent anthropologist Olive Pink. The…
Alice Springs
The Araluen Cultural Precinct is Alice Springs' cultural hub; leave a couple of hours aside for exploration of its excellent sights which include the…
Royal Flying Doctor Service Base
Alice Springs
This excellent museum, filled with interactive information portals, is the home of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, whose dedicated health workers provide…
Alice Springs
The old Telegraph Station, which used to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide, offers a fascinating glimpse of the town's European beginnings. It's…
Alice Springs
The home paddock of Kangaroo Dundee (a show about a kangaroo family featured on a BBC/National Geographic production), the Kangaroo Sanctuary offers a…
Alice Springs Transport Heritage Centre
Alice Springs
At the MacDonnell siding, 10km south of Alice and 1km west of the Stuart Hwy, are two museums dedicated to big trucks and old trains. The Old Ghan…
Alice Springs
The natural history collection at this compact museum is beautifully displayed, with geological exhibits such as meteorite fragments and fossils, as well…
Central Australia Aviation Museum
Alice Springs
In the Connellan Airways Hangar, Alice's original aerodrome, displays on pioneer aviation in the Territory include Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)…
Alice Springs
It may be small, but this reptile centre packs a poisonous punch with its impressive collection of venomous snakes, thorny devils and bearded dragons…
Alice Springs Memorial Cemetery
Alice Springs
The cemetery contains the graves of some prominent locals, including artist Albert Namatjira (1902–59) and Harold Lasseter (1880–1931), the eccentric…
National Road Transport Hall of Fame
Alice Springs
If you fancy big trucks, the National Road Transport Hall of Fame has a fabulous collection, including the chassis of the first Kenworth to come off the…
Alice Springs
Established in 1951, this was the first school of its type in Australia, broadcasting lessons to children over an area of 1.3 million sq km. While…
National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame
Alice Springs
This tribute to Australia’s pioneering women is in the former Alice Springs Gaol, very near the Royal Flying Doctor Service base. Behind the high walls…
Old Ghan Heritage Railway Museum
Alice Springs
This collection of restored Ghan locos and carriages will please train buffs and anyone else interested in this pioneering railway (originally called the…
Alice Springs
On the western edge of Alice on the road to the West MacDonnell Ranges, the grave of John Flynn is topped by a boulder donated by the Arrernte people (the…
Alice Springs
For a tremendous view, particularly at sunrise and sunset, take a hike (use Lions Walk from Wills Tce) or a drive up to the top of Anzac Hill, known as…
Museum of Central Australia - Megafauna Central
Alice Springs
Exhibits from one of Australia's richest fossil sites, the Alcoota Waterhole, 150km north of Alice Springs, are on display here. The fossils date back up…
Alice Springs
Upstairs in the Museum of Central Australia there's a display on the work of Professor TGH Strehlow, a linguist and anthropologist born at the…
Alice Springs
Built in the 1920s as the Australian Inland Mission hospital, Adelaide House was the first hospital in central Australia. Designed by the founding flying…
Alice Springs
Built in 1927, the Residency has a gracious beauty. It's a symbol of the town's brief legislative independence from the rest of the NT. Apart from its…
Alice Springs
Alice Springs schoolhouse from 1938. It's worth a quick look as it's one of few Alice buildings from the early to mid-20th century.