The Museum of Tropical Queensland is the most distant campus of the Queensland Museum.

Recognised as a world-class museum, Museum of Tropical Queensland houses fascinating and interactive exhibits on a variety of subjects. These include a fun view of life in the tropics, plus interactive displays featuring the unique fauna and flora of tropical North Queensland, as well as weird and wonderful creatures from the deep sea and Australia's past.

The Great Gallery of the Museum features a reconstruction of the bow of HMS Pandora, the British navy ship sent to capture the Bounty mutineers 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 about the sinking of the Pandora and check out displays of artefacts recovered from the shipwreck.

Another popular feature of the Museum of Tropical Queensland is the Tropical Science Centre, which offers challenges to young and old alike with mind bender puzzles and tests of physical skills.

Other themes interpreted in the Galleries include 'Discover Tropical Queensland', featuring the natural and human history of the tropics. Overall, the Museum of Tropical Queensland is a showcase of the environment and cultures of North Queensland, with major displays of indigenous artefacts, fossils, corals, along with natural history and lifestyle displays.

The Museum of Tropical Queensland's Centre for Maritime Archaeology and the research and interpretation of the world's most significant collection of Great Barrier Reef hard corals and staghorn corals.

With easy access for wheelchairs and a coffee shop, the Museum of Tropical Queensland is two minutes from the city centre and Magnetic Island ferry services.

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