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Museum of Tropical Queensland
70-102 Flinders Street
Townsville
QLD 4810
Telephone: 07 4726 0600
Facsimile: 07 4721 2093
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A world-class museum, the Museum of Tropical Queensland (MTQ) is bursting with fun, fascinating and interactive displays. With a primary focus on North Queensland, it reveals the secrets of life in the tropics, the region's unique fauna and flora, and weird and wonderful creatures from the deep sea and Australia's past.
The Great Gallery of the museum is dominated by a reconstruction of the bow of HMS Pandora, the British naval ship sent to capture the mutineers from the Bounty and which later sank on the Great Barrier Reef. The unique design of the Great Gallery carpet displays a plan of the gun deck on the floor of the gallery. Visitors can trace the histories of the Bounty and Pandora in the maritime archaeology gallery, learn the dramatic tale of the Pandora's wrecking and explore displays of priceless artefacts recovered from the shipwreck.
Another popular attraction in the museum is the MindZone, which offers challenges to young and old alike with mind-bending puzzles and tests of physical skills.
Open daily between 0930 and 1700. Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day. Closed on the morning of Anzac Day.
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