Queensland Museum
Queensland Government
Queensland Museum is a museum of natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement that tells the changing story of Queensland. The Museum houses permanent and changing exhibitions and also provides in-depth education experiences, innovative public programs, early childhood activities and entertaining holiday activities. We aim to connect visitors to Queensland, its people and place in the world - past, present and future through exhibitions, displays and public programs. The Museum conducts internationally significant research into cultures and histories, geological and biological sciences and environment, and is home to millions of objects, specimens and artefacts that tell the changing story of Queensland.
- Website
- https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Explore/Research
- Organisation type
- Queensland statutory authority
- Not-for-profit
- Museum
- Number of research staff
20-100 research staff
- Address
Queensland Museum, 74 Grey Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101
Strengths and capabilities
- Cultural and historical research
- Biological research
- Anthropological research
- Paleontological research
- the most comprehensive fossil heritage in Australia
Facilities and major equipment
- Queensland Centre for Biodiversity
- Queensland Museum - Brisbane
- Museum of Tropical Queensland
- Molecular Identities Laboratory
Lead researchers
- Doctor John Hooper—Head of Biodiversity & Geosciences Program at the Queensland Museum, John is an international authority on sponges
- Doctor Rob Adlard—Head of Marine Zoology & Senior Curator of Parasitology
Achievements of the centre
- Hosts of the World Science Festival Brisbane
- Biodiversity collection of over 2.5 million specimens from Queensland and adjacent Indo-Pacific regions
- Largest and most significant geosciences collections in the southern hemisphere
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