The Age of Fishes Museum offers visitors and exciting range of permanent exhibitions and activities, occasional traveling exhibitions and well presented additional facilities, such as the Grossi Gift shop, a Regional VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE, as well as Picnic and BBQ facilities, a timeline walk, a 'Fishes and Rods' Games board and fossil dig pits for young visitors.
Audio Guide Tours are available for adults and children and the museum is also Fully Accessible.
Visitors are encouraged to allow a minimum of 1 and 2 hours for their visit to the Museum.
The Museum is open 7 days per week (Xmas Day and morning of Anzac Day excepted) from 10 AM to 4 PM. Other times by arrangement.
On display at the Museum are the best examples of the fish fossils so far recovered from the site but stand by for further developments there is a plan to reopen the site and who knows what other exciting finds will then be made including possibly a complete early tetrapod (an ancestor of modern 4-footed, vertebrate, air breathing animals).
Visitors are able to get close-up and personal with the actual fossils on display and even touch them! Come and pay a visit and learn more about fossils, geology and evolution from one of the most iconic and unique fossil discoveries on Earth.
Cost
Adults $10.00.
Seniors/concessions $8.00
Groups $8.00
Senior students $8.00
Junior students $5.00
Family $25.00
Entry includes an audio tour or a guided tour.
Groups: Bookings essentials
Coach set-down area
Times
The Museum is open 7 days per week (Xmas Day and morning of Anzac Day excepted)
10 AM to 4 PM.
Other times by arrangement.
Catering & Picnic Area
Visitors to the Museum are welcome to bring their own lunches and refreshments and use the Picnic Area and the BBQ.
Country style morning and afternoon tea and lunches can be catered for by prior arrangement.
A free BBQ is available for use.
Accessibility
Wheel chair access (toilets, wide passages and ramp access)
Large print brochures
Casts, magnifying glasses and moulds
Low interpretive exhibits with large print and good lighting
Hearing loop in the Education Den