Darwin Sights

  1. Australian Aviation Heritage Centre

    The city's Australian Aviation Heritage Centre is crammed with aircraft and memorabilia, including a mammoth American B52 bomber and the wreck of a Japanese Zero fighter shot down in 1942. Guided one-hour tours take place at and . It's about 10km from Darwin's centre; buses 5 and 8 will get you there.

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  2. Australian Pearling Exhibition

    The Australian Pearling Exhibition has excellent audiovisual displays on harvesting and farming pearls. It covers historic hard-hat diving and modern techniques used in today's pearling industry, which is the Territory's largest fisheries export earner.

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  3. East Point Military Museum

    On the northern side of East Point Reserve is a series of WWII gun emplacements and the small East Point Military Museum. Video footage of Darwin Harbour being bombed is surprising to most visiting Australians (for whom war is something that happens elsewhere); military buffs and historians will delight in displays of wartime weapons, photos and curios.

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  4. Fannie Bay Gaol Museum

    The interesting Fannie Bay Gaol Museum represents almost 100 years of solitude. Serving as Darwin's main jail from 1883 to 1979, the solid cells contain information panels that provide a window into the region's unique social history. Lepers, refugees and juveniles were among the groups of people confined here.

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  5. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

    North of town, in Fannie Bay, is the superb Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Its good range of Top End-centric displays are well laid out in separate galleries. The Aboriginal art collection is a highlight, with carvings from the Tiwi Islands, bark paintings from Arnhem Land and dot paintings from the desert. The gallery also hosts visiting exhibitions, including the coveted National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

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  7. oil-storage tunnels

    On the mainland is one of Darwin's more unusual gallery spaces. Two subterranean WWII oil-storage tunnels built to store the Navy's oil supplies (but never used) exhibit wartime photos.

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