This massive new exhibition at Melbourne Museum brings you face to face with (taxidermy) animals from around the world.
Melbourne Museum opens Our Wondrous Planet this Saturday, featuring over 800 animals across four global ecosystems.
Our Wondrous Planet invites visitors to discover a world four billion years in the making, coming face to face with animals from around the globe while stepping into their vibrant ecosystems. Spread across 1800 square metres, the gallery explores four distinct environments – reef, rainforest, ice and soil – showing how each forms part of a thriving global network that plays a fundamental role in supporting life on Earth.
Rather than just observing from the sidelines, visitors become part of Earth’s incredible living systems. You’ll ride swirling ocean currents, connect with intriguing creatures and vast root networks beneath the soil, and join in the magical moment when a coral reef starts its life cycle. Soar through lush rainforest canopies to meet majestic animals that call it home, then find yourself immersed in icy polar realms where seals and whales glide through freezing waters.
Our Wondrous Planet – Melbourne Museum
- What: Multisensory exhibition exploring four major ecosystems
- When: Opens Saturday 20 September
- Where: Melbourne Museum
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Guided by interwoven First Peoples and sciences knowledges, Our Wondrous Planet reveals the countless ways we are all connected while showing how individual actions can help restore biodiversity in incredible natural environments. This approach to learning how your own choices can help shape a thriving future for our planet sets the exhibition apart from traditional museum displays, and we can’t wait to check it out.
This multisensory gallery combines over 800 amazing animals from Melbourne Museum’s collections with hands-on interactives, large-scale immersive projections and media, plus stories from First Peoples around the world. Four billion years of evolution and connection come together in one transformative experience.
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