Overview

  • Features: Natural history museum with a wide array of exhibits
  • Opening Times:  9:30am to 5:00pm, daily
  • Best Time to Visit: Mornings
  • Duration: Half a day
  • Transport Options: Bus, car, train
  • Cost: Free
  • Address: Crn Grey & Melbourne Streets, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • Type: Museum

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What We Liked

Giant dinosaur skeletons.

What We Disliked

Not a lot of information on the exhibits.

Summary

If you’re heading to Brisbane or already there and thinking about visiting the Brisbane Museum, you’ve come to the right place. This article gives you a good introduction to the museum before you get there. Read interesting facts about Brisbane Museum as well as the top exhibits to see there. Plus, there’s important information to help you plan your trip to this popular Brisbane attraction.

Top Exhibits at Brisbane Museum

 

If you’re heading to Brisbane or already there and thinking about visiting the Brisbane Museum, you’ve come to the right place. This article gives you a good introduction to the museum before you get there. Read interesting facts about Brisbane Museum as well as the top exhibits to see there. Plus, there’s important information to help you plan your trip to this popular Brisbane attraction.

 

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Interesting Facts About Brisbane Museum

  • The Brisbane Museum is officially known as Queensland Museum
  • It is located at the back of the Queensland Cultural Centre complex in South Brisbane
  • The museum houses a vast range of exhibits relating to the anthropology, geology, zoology, history and technology of Queensland
  • The two most popular exhibits are a skeleton of the state’s own dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus, and the Avian Cirrus, the tiny plane in which Queensland’s Bert Hinkler made the first England-to-Australia solo flight in 1928
  • The museum has a cafe and gift shop
  • General admission to the Brisbane Museum is free
  • Sciencecentre is located in the same building on Level 1 – entry fees apply

 

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Top Brisbane Museum Exhibits

  • Models of dinosaurs including a skeleton of the state’s own dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus
  • Avian Cirrus, the tiny plane in which Queensland’s Bert Hinkler made the first England-to-Australia solo flight in 1928
  • A display on Queensland’s endangered species, as well as a reconstruction of the host of mammoth marsupials that roamed these shores more than 100,000 years ago
  • World War I German tank
  • Model of a blue whale
  • Temporary exhibits on the likes of bug, beetle and butterfly parades, or dinosaur skeletons from around the globe

 

 

Brisbane Museum Dinosaurs

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While there are several specimens of dinosaurs at Brisbane Museum, the most popular exhibit is the skeleton of Queensland’s own dinosaur, Muttaburrasaurus. Standing in the foyer, it’s hard to miss as you walk into the museum.

If you or your kids are dinosaur fans, you can’t afford to miss the temporary dinosaur exhibition at Brisbane Museum. From 27th March to 5th October 2015, Brisbane Museum is hosting an exciting exhibition on dinosaurs called Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous. An entry fee applies for admission to this exhibition but it is worth it as it features more than 20 animated, life-size dinosaur models including the fearsome T-Rex, and Queensland’s own Muttaburrasaurus. Get up close with these giants of the lost world and see first-hand how they moved, roared, gnashed and bellowed.

 

 

Brisbane Museum Prices

General admission to the Brisbane Museum is FREE. Some special events and exhibitions at the Brisbane Museum have an entry fee.

If you’re visiting Sciencecentre, there is a fee for entry. Adult tickets cost A$14.50 and tickets for children aged 3 to 15 cost A$11.50 (as at June 2015). Sciencentre tickets are available online or from the Museum ticket office on Level 2.

 

 

Brisbane Museum Opening Hours

The Brisbane Museum is open daily from 9.30am to 5.00pm. The museum is open on ANZAC Day from 1.30 pm onwards. It is closed on Good Friday, Christmas Day & Boxing Day.

 

 

Brisbane Museum Parking

There is plenty of underground parking available at the Brisbane Museum. Alternatively, you can take a ferry, bus or train to the museum.

Ferry – South Bank (CityCat) or Old South Bank (Inner City Ferry)

Bus – Numerous routes from Adelaide St. (near Albert St.), including 100, 111, 115, and 120, stop outside Brisbane Museum

Train – Nearest train station is South Brisbane

 

 

Brisbane Museum Address

Queensland Museum & Sciencentre

Crn Grey & Melbourne Streets

South Brisbane

Queensland 4101

Australia

 

Adjacent to South Bank Parklands, across Victoria Bridge at western end of Queen Street

 

 

Tell us what you think. What are you looking forward to seeing at the Brisbane Museum? If you’ve been here before, what exhibits did you like the most?

We love to hear from you so please leave your comments below.

 

 

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