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The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition the Monash Science Centre the Exhibition The Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition The Monash Science Centre 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 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 § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation The Monash Science Centre was launched in the National Museum of Natural Sciences and others depicting the animals and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, 1993 as the brainchild of a research (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste). palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in petioles and twigs growing three or four metres academic and the Vice Chancellor of Monash above the ground. (Credit: Artist Peter Trusler) Successful Exhibitions rely on strong University. It filled a community need – that of relationships with host venues and research access to content-rich science and organisations such as, National Geographic technology information, particularly by youth, Society (Washington), Paleontological delivered in such a way that it could be Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences understood, with observers empowered and (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio enthused to seek more and personally Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), Queen Victoria evaluate the information they were accessing. Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the The Monash Science Centre is located in an Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the award winning building on the Clayton Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National campus of Monash University. Monash Museum (the latter 3 in Japan). University is Australia’s largest and most The Monash Science Centre highly values the internationally focussed University. Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the co-operative input to exhibitions by Monash Science Centre. The Patron of the Centre is Sir David community groups, government and the Attenborough. private sector, for example the SES (State Photo by David McKay. Emergency Services), EMA (Emergency MSC Exhibitions Management Australia), CFA (Country Fire In the last 10 years Authority), Qantas, and GlaxoSmithKlein and others. • Over 4+ million people have attended an MSC exhibition (1.2 million Australians, The Monash Science Centre is a recognized 2.5+ million International) leader in Science Outreach institutions and is sought to provide professional guidance to • Topics covered include Geosciences other organizations such as National Museum (especially Palaeobiology), Natural of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto University Disasters, Human Biology, Science and Museum (Japan), the Gunma Prefectural Front Cover Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, Museum (Japan), the Paleontological Institute All of the dinosaurs except Muttaburrasaurus in Climate Change this scene are from Early Cretaceous polar of the Russian Academy of Sciences Victoria. From Right to left: an ankylosaur Minmi, Exhibitions have toured around Australia and (Moscow), the Shanghai Natural History Atlascopcosaurus are in the background and a flying reptile (a pterosaur) in the air. (Credit: Artist internationally (including the the Burke Museum (China), the Kotelnich Regional Peter Trusler, copyright Australia Post. This Museum (University of Washington, USA), the Museum (Russia), the Singapore Science material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original New Jersey State Museum (USA), the Los Centre among many others. work is held in the National Philatelic Collection). Angeles County Museum (USA), Argentina, Japan, Italy, the Singapore Science Centre, The Monash Science Centre 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 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 § Large slab of Banded Iron Formation The Monash Science Centre was launched in the National Museum of Natural Sciences and others depicting the animals and their species of "Mihirung", roamed the Central Australia landscape, browsing on leaves, fruit, flowers, 1993 as the brainchild of a research (Taiwan,) and Timor-Leste). palaeoenvironment. Skeletons mounted in petioles and twigs growing three or four metres academic and the Vice Chancellor of Monash above the ground. (Credit: Artist Peter Trusler) Successful Exhibitions rely on strong University. It filled a community need – that of relationships with host venues and research access to content-rich science and organisations such as, National Geographic technology information, particularly by youth, Society (Washington), Paleontological delivered in such a way that it could be Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences understood, with observers empowered and (Moscow), Museo Palaeontologico Egidio enthused to seek more and personally Feruglio (Trelew, Argentina), Queen Victoria evaluate the information they were accessing. Museum and Art Gallery (Launceston), the The Monash Science Centre is located in an Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, the award winning building on the Clayton Gunma Prefectural Museum and the National campus of Monash University. Monash Museum (the latter 3 in Japan). University is Australia’s largest and most The Monash Science Centre highly values the internationally focussed University. Sir David Attenborough, the patron of the co-operative input to exhibitions by Monash Science Centre. The Patron of the Centre is Sir David community groups, government and the Attenborough. private sector, for example the SES (State Photo by David McKay. Emergency Services), EMA (Emergency MSC Exhibitions Management Australia), CFA (Country Fire In the last 10 years Authority), Qantas, and GlaxoSmithKlein and others. • Over 4+ million people have attended an MSC exhibition (1.2 million Australians, The Monash Science Centre is a recognized 2.5+ million International) leader in Science Outreach institutions and is sought to provide professional guidance to • Topics covered include Geosciences other organizations such as National Museum (especially Palaeobiology), Natural of Australia (Canberra), Kyoto University Disasters, Human Biology, Science and Museum (Japan), the Gunma Prefectural Front Cover Art, Astronomy, Scientific Instrumentation, Museum (Japan), the Paleontological Institute All of the
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