Museum sights in Brisbane
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Sciencentre
Often packed with school kids is the Queensland Museum's very fun Sciencentre, a hands-on science exhibit with interactive displays and optical illusions. Blast out of the blocks and check your speed in the 10m interactive dash or make your own whirlpool at the water world exhibits – it's an educational funhouse.
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Queensland Museum
An entrée to Queensland’s history and cultural identity, the Queensland Museum houses a diverse range of displays including the Discover Queensland exhibition and the Museum Zoo, which houses over 700 prehistoric and modern animals from dung beetles to dinosaurs. Upstairs, there’s a sobering display on Australia’s endangered species and on the 4th floor is the museum’s Dandiiri Maiwar Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Cultures Centre.
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Museum of Brisbane
Around the corner from City Hall, this museum illuminates the city from a wide variety of viewpoints, with interactive exhibits that explore both social history and the current cultural landscape.
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QUT Art Museum
In the grounds of QUT is this museum, which has regularly changing exhibits of contemporary Australian art and works by Brisbane art students. Next door is Old Government House, a beautiful colonnaded building dating from 1860 and now the home of the National Trust.
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Commissariat Stores Building
Built by convicts in 1829, the former government storehouse is one of Brisbane's oldest buildings and houses a museum devoted to Brisbane's convict and colonial history.
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