From diamonds to dinosaurs, learn about the material world and living world through this spectacular collection of fossils and minerals. The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum is the home of the internationally renowned Somerville Collection, the lifetime work of Professor Warren Somerville AM.
The museum can tailor sessions to meet your school’s requirements.
The museum offers a range of museum guided and teacher led options for students to:
Join a prehistoric preschool session full of dinosaurs, volcanoes and things that romp and stomp in a fun play based session for early learners aged 2-5 years
It’s time to play, explore and enjoy Museum Playtime early learning programs designed to encourage children to explore their world, the museum collections and stories through enquiry based learning, hands-on activities, objects, storytelling and play.
How do we know dinosaurs ever existed? What do we know about how dinosaurs lived and what lived alongside them?
Sitting in the shadow of the T. rex, students will see real dinosaur eggs, dinosaur skeletons and fossils as well as learn about the planet we live on, in a program designed for Early Stage 1 to Stage 1 students.
How do minerals form? How do we use natural resources? Can our natural resources run out? How has our planet changed over time? What is a fossil? How do we know about past life on Earth?
In a program designed for Stage 2-3 students will:
Evolution and Extinctions. What lessons can we learn from the past to help us plan for the future?
Through tours of the fossil gallery, students will gain an understanding of how the fossil record provides evidence of how present day organisms have evolved, and how the fossil record can be used to determine the changes that have occurred over time.
The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum includes specimens of fossils from almost every most stage of life on Earth and scientifically significant specimens from Australia.
Every showcase includes information about significant events in the history of life on Earth, as well as maps of the Earth and the geological timeline.
Museums Bathurst is a suite of public museums managed by Bathurst Regional Council, located on Wiradjuri Country. Museums Bathurst acknowledges the Wiradjuri People as the Traditional Custodians of the land in the Bathurst Region. We pay respect to Elders, past, present, and emerging and acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live, work and play in the Bathurst region.
