Melbourne Museum is set to launch Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world, an exhibition featuring more than 700 mammals, birds and reptiles from all around the world.
Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world, which opens on 13 November, is the latest addition to Melbourne Museum’s popular Science and Life Gallery.
“This exhibition is the biggest display of backboned animals Melbourne Museum has ever created,” said Kate Phillips, Curator, Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world. Animals on display include the Emperor Penguin, Wolverine, Giant Panda, Jaguar and Polar Bear. New multimedia technologies will help visitors get an in-depth understanding of how these animals live.
Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world explores issues of climate change and why biodiversity – the incredible variety of different species alive today – is under threat. As well as showing the kinds of animals that are found in different parts of the world, the exhibition also includes stories of how people are working to conserve wildlife, and what we can do to make a difference.
“Visitors to Melbourne Museum will be able to explore this wonderful diversity and at the same time discover which animals are thriving – and which are merely surviving,” said Phillips.
Australian animals found in Victoria will also be a major feature of the exhibition, including the Mountain-Pygmy Possum, Koala, Regent Honeyeater and Malleefowl. Interactive displays about Victorian environments such as the alps, grasslands and wetlands will reveal what is changing and the connections between people and nature.
Other animals on display include:
From Africa – Okapi, African Wild dog, Asiatic Lion and Secretary Bird
South America – toucans, Jaguar, armadillos, sloths and monkeys
Eurasia and North America, Arctic – Great Horned Owl, Giant Panda, Arctic Fox and Polar Bear
Southern Asia – Indian Rhinoceros, Asian Palm Civet, Sri Lankan Giant Squirrel and Luzon Bleeding-heart Pideon
Australia and the South Pacific – Southern Brown Kiwi, Thylacine, Red Kangaroo and Dingo
Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world is the second phase of the redevelopment of Melbourne Museum’s Science and Life Gallery. When complete, the redevelopment will feature four new long-term exhibitions presenting more than 3,000 objects from the Museum’s collections, many on display for the first time.
For further information, visit museumvictoria.com.au/scienceandlife or phone 13 11 02.
Wild: Amazing animals in a changing world
From November 13
Melbourne Museum
Included in general admission prices (adults $8, children and concession card holders FREE)