Museums in Alice Springs

Alice Springs or "The Alice" is the entrance to Australia's heart and documented as the 'Centre of Australia'. Situated 1524 km from Darwin and 293 km north of the South Australian border, Alice Springs is the second major town in the Northern Territory. Alice Springs is a popular tourist destination, where you can visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), take an Aboriginal culture tour, glide over the fantastic red plains in a hot air balloon. It is an attractive and mesmeric backwoods city surrounded by an immense number of mesmerizing attractions. Museums in Alice Springs are the must -see attractions at Alice Springs, and in these museums, the visitors definitely find amazing things that grabs them, whether it is fossils at the natural history Museum of Central Australia, aircraft and wreckage at the Aviation Museum or Aboriginal and contemporary art at the Araluen Centre.

Museum of Central Australia is one of the most famous Museums in Alice Springs, which is an interpretive centre for the unique natural history of Central Australia, and the exhibits and displays in this centre follow the evolution of the land and the mesmeric living things that inhabited it. This museum is a replica of an ancient waterhole with a number of amazing megafauna including a huge freshwater crocodile and the largest bird that ever lived. it also exhibits the fossils of Central Australian mammals, reptiles and insects.
Museum of Central Australia
PO Box 3521 Alice Springs NT 0871
Tel: (08) 8951 1121
Fax: (08) 8951 1107
Alice Springs, Australia
E-mail: culturalprecinct.dam@nt.gov.au
Location: Larapinta Dr. at Memorial Ave., 2km (1 1/4 miles) south of town

There are different Museums in Alice Springs and one of them is Royal Flying Doctor Service. Alice Springs is the main base for Royal Flying Doctor Service that treats people living and traveling in the immense backwoods. An exciting 20-minute tour runs every half-hour, including a video and a talk in the communications room and allow another 30 minutes to look around the small museum. Some of the recorded conversations between doctors and patients are fascinating.

Royal Flying Doctor Service
8-10 Stuart Terrace
Alice Springs, Australia
Tel: 08 8952 1129
Web site: www.flyingdoctor.net
Location: At the end of Hartley St

Southern Arrernte Aboriginal people are set up the Aboriginal Australia Culture Centre, which houses a small, interesting museum with exhibits on Aboriginal life. This museum displays a timeline of the Aboriginal view of history since "contact" (the arrival of Europeans). If you are interested in indigenous cultures then it is a must-see destination.
Aboriginal Australia Culture Centre
86 Todd Street
Alice Springs 0870
Australia
Tel: 61 9 89 52 34 08
Fax: 61 8 89 53 26 78
E-mail: info@aboriginalaustralia.com

One of the famous Museums in Alice Springs, Old Ghan Museum depicts the history of the legendary Ghan Railroad of Australia.
Old Ghan Museum
Norris Bell Avenue, Alice Springs
Australia
Tel: 08 8955 5047

The building of Adelaide House Museum was the first hospital in Alice Springs, which at present houses a local history museum with photographs, old radio equipment, maps and publications.
Adelaide House Museum
Todd Mall, Alice Springs 0870, Australia

More than 100 Australian who were pioneers in their fields are featured National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, this museum reveals their stories through photographs, artifacts and other memorabilia.
National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame
27 Hartley Street
P.O. Box 9193, Alice Springs 0871
Australia
Tel: +61-8-8952 9006
Fax: +61-8-8952 9406
E-mail: curator@pioneerwomen.com.au

Established in 1990 Gallery Gondwana is one of the well-known Museums in Alice Springs, and it has always recognized and actively supported the vivacity of the contemporary art of Indigenous cultures.
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
43 Todd Mall
Alice Springs
NT, 0870
Tel: +61 8 8953 1577
Fax: +61 8 8953 2441