Inquiry Centre
Inquiry Centre Redevelopment
We're renovating until Sunday 20 September 2008.
If you're planning to visit the Inquiry Centre, or take advantage of our services please be aware of the following dates:
Full closure
The Inquiry Centre space will be closed from Tuesday 15 July to Sunday 24 August 2008.
Services during closure
Web, email and postal services will remain unchanged. For in-person specimen and object identification, please go to the Level 2 cloakroom where a staff member will arrange for an Information Officer to meet you.
For more information please call + 61 (0)7 3840 7555.
A wealth of knowledge
Ask our helpful, knowledgable Inquiry Centre staff any Queensland Museum-related question and we should find the answer. More difficult questions are referred to our scientists and cultural heritage experts.
Library and other written material
Our library specialises in popular and academic books about Australian animals, ecology, earth science and cultural heritage. We also keep files of scientific papers and magazine articles, as well as producing our own fact sheets, about frequently requested topics.
Displays
The displays have a little bit of everything from the museum's collections: corals, crayfish, shells, spiders, insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, ceramics, glassware, Aboriginal and Torres Strait artefacts, classical antiquities, firearms and edged weapons.
The items in displays are arranged systematically: that is, all the birds are together and all the ducks next to other ducks. This allows visitors to compare one with another as an aid to identification. Correct identification is the key to find other information.
The Queensland Museum's latest acquisitions and discoveries are featured in three constantly changing displays.
Living animals
Always popular are the world's largest cockroaches, stick insects spiders and other insects.
