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The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition Expo SCI! Expo The Exhibition This exhibition looks at the diversity of life in dynamic poses include a giant lizard Early modern life (Cambrian - Ordivician the great southern super-continent Gondwana (Megalania) chasing a giant flightless bird 542-444 mya) from 3.8 billion years to present. (Bullockornis), and an Antarctica dinosaur § Archaeocyathid colony blocks (Cryolohophosaurus). All furniture and § Trilobite resting or feeding trace and worm The unique nature of the fauna of this protective perspex panels. Comprehensive traces continent and the complex interplay of § Rock specimens with Agnostid trilobite Education Kits for Levels Prep to Year 8 and changes over geological history provides an § Large selection of graptolites from the above. engaging context for exhibition attendees. Cambrian and Ordovician of Victoria. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Including Phyllograptus, Didymograptus The exhibition highlights the products of Australia, an Australian Government Program and Tetragraptus. research by some of the world's leading supporting touring exhibitions by providing palaeontologists, including staff from Monash Silurian (444-416 mya) funding assistance for the development and University. § Baragwanathia longfolia block (early land touring of cultural material across Australia plants) Components Specimen list § Trilobites 42 information panels More than 300 Precambrian (older than 542 mya) specimens of fossils and rocks (including § Slabs of Neoproterozoic material Dromornis stirtoni, Reconstruction of Central Photograph provided by the Herald Sun: Boy and Dinosaur original and cast material), both fragmentary Australian Miocene. This reconstruction depicts a (metazoan body fossils and traces) scene in times past, 8 million years before the and full skeletons. Art works by Peter Trusler present. Then Dromornis stirtoni, the largest Museum (University of Washington, USA), the § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation New Jersey State Museum (USA), the Los and others depicting the animals and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, Angeles County Museum (USA), Argentina, palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in petioles and twigs growing three or four metres Japan, Italy, the Singapore Science Centre, above the ground. (Credit: Artist Peter Trusler) the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste). Successful Exhibitions rely on strong relationships with host venues and research organisations such as, National Geographic Society (Washington), Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National Museum (the latter 3 in Japan). SCI! Expo and its outreach primary education partner PrimeSCI! highly value the co- operative input to exhibitions and education Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! . Photo by Steve Morton modules by community groups, government and the private sector, for example the SES (State Emergency Services), EMA (Emergency Management Australia), CFA SCI! Expo is the offspring of the Monash The Patron of this Centre is Sir David (Country Fire Authority), Qantas, and Science Centre, which was launched in 1993 Attenborough. GlaxoSmithKlein and others. as the brainchild of a research academic and SCI! Expo the Vice Chancellor of Monash University. It SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! are recognized filled a community need – that of access to In the last 11 years leaders in Science Outreach institutions and content-rich science and technology have sought to provide professional guidance information, particularly by youth, delivered in • Over 4+ million people have attended an to other organizations such as National such a way that it could be understood, with MSC exhibition (1.2 million Australians, Museum of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto observers empowered and enthused to seek 2.5+ million International) University Museum (Japan), the Gunma more and personally evaluate the information • Topics covered include Geosciences Prefectural Museum (Japan), the they were accessing. (especially Palaeobiology), Natural Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the SCI! Expo is located in the science precinct Disasters, Human Biology, Science and Shanghai Natural History Museum (China), on the Clayton campus of Monash University. Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, the Kotelnich Regional Museum (Russia), the Monash University is Australia’s largest and Climate Change Singapore Science Centre, the Iranian most internationally focussed University. Exhibitions have toured around Australia and Science and Technology Museum among internationally (including the the Burke many others. SCI! Expo The Exhibition This exhibition looks at the diversity of life in dynamic poses include a giant lizard Early modern life (Cambrian - Ordivician the great southern super-continent Gondwana (Megalania) chasing a giant flightless bird 542-444 mya) from 3.8 billion years to present. (Bullockornis), and an Antarctica dinosaur § Archaeocyathid colony blocks (Cryolohophosaurus). All furniture and § Trilobite resting or feeding trace and worm The unique nature of the fauna of this protective perspex panels. Comprehensive traces continent and the complex interplay of § Rock specimens with Agnostid trilobite Education Kits for Levels Prep to Year 8 and changes over geological history provides an § Large selection of graptolites from the above. engaging context for exhibition attendees. Cambrian and Ordovician of Victoria. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Including Phyllograptus, Didymograptus The exhibition highlights the products of Australia, an Australian Government Program and Tetragraptus. research by some of the world's leading supporting touring exhibitions by providing palaeontologists, including staff from Monash Silurian (444-416 mya) funding assistance for the development and University. § Baragwanathia longfolia block (early land touring of cultural material across Australia plants) Components Specimen list § Trilobites 42 information panels More than 300 Precambrian (older than 542 mya) specimens of fossils and rocks (including § Slabs of Neoproterozoic material Dromornis stirtoni, Reconstruction of Central Photograph provided by the Herald Sun: Boy and Dinosaur original and cast material), both fragmentary Australian Miocene. This reconstruction depicts a (metazoan body fossils and traces) scene in times past, 8 million years before the and full skeletons. Art works by Peter Trusler present. Then Dromornis stirtoni, the largest Museum (University of Washington, USA), the § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation New Jersey State Museum (USA), the Los and others depicting the animals and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, Angeles County Museum (USA), Argentina, palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in petioles and twigs growing three or four metres Japan, Italy, the Singapore Science Centre, above the ground. (Credit: Artist Peter Trusler) the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste). Successful Exhibitions rely on strong relationships with host venues and research organisations such as, National Geographic Society (Washington), Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National Museum (the latter 3 in Japan). SCI! Expo and its outreach primary education partner PrimeSCI! highly value the co- operative input to exhibitions and education Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! . Photo by Steve Morton modules by community groups, government and the private sector, for example the SES (State Emergency Services), EMA (Emergency Management Australia), CFA SCI! Expo is the offspring of the Monash The Patron of this Centre is Sir David (Country Fire Authority), Qantas, and Science Centre, which was launched in 1993 Attenborough. GlaxoSmithKlein and others. as the brainchild of a research academic and SCI! Expo the Vice Chancellor of Monash University. It SCI! Expo and PrimeSCI! are recognized filled a community need – that of access to In the last 11 years leaders in Science Outreach institutions and content-rich science and technology have sought to provide professional guidance information, particularly by youth, delivered in • Over 4+ million people have attended an to other organizations such as National such a way that it could be understood, with MSC exhibition (1.2 million Australians, Museum of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto observers empowered and enthused to seek 2.5+ million International) University Museum (Japan), the Gunma more and personally evaluate the information • Topics covered include Geosciences Prefectural Museum (Japan), the they were accessing. (especially Palaeobiology), Natural Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the SCI! Expo is located in the science precinct Disasters, Human Biology, Science and Shanghai Natural History Museum (China), on the Clayton campus of Monash University. Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, the Kotelnich Regional Museum
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