Queensland Museum

The Queensland Museum is a national museum in Queensland. So far there are five locations, two in Brisbane ( at South Brisbane and Woolloongabba ), as well as in Ipswich, Toowoomba and Townsville. The museums treat the history of Queensland.

The museum was founded in 1862 by the Queensland Philosophical Society in Brisbane. In 1879 it moved into its own building, and in 1899 in the Exhibition Building. 1985 moved to the Grey and Melbourne Street in South Bank. There's the Queensland Museum South Bank and the Science Centre. In addition to the headquarters, there is a railway museum in Ipswich ( The Workshops Rail Museum ), the Museum of Tropical Queensland in Townsville Country and the Cobb & Co Museum in Toowoomba.

In the Museum of Tropical Queensland are also maritime exhibits, as from the 1791 decline in the Barrier Reef HMS Pandora, which should chase the mutineers of the Bounty. Your nachgebauter bug can be seen in the museum. Exhibits include organisms from the Great Barrier Reef and from the tropical rainforests of Queensland. The Cobb & Co Museum is named after a stagecoach company of the 19th century and brings these pioneering times to life.

1901-1905 Charles Walter De Vis was director.

Exhibits

In Queensland Museum there are skeletons of extinct giant Beutler Diprotodon and the herbivorous dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus. Its fossils were found in Muttaburra and named the dinosaur after the place of its discovery. There is also a German A7V tank, which came during the First World War in Australian possession. He is the last remaining German tanks of the First World War.

There are ethnological exhibits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders of.