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Tours & Education
The Age of Fishes Museum offers visitors and exciting range of permanent exhibitions and activities, occasional travelling exhibitions and well presented additional facilities, such as a well stocked gift shop, a regional VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE, as well as shaded picnic tables, a timeline walk, giant board games and fossil dig pits for young visitors.
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Visitors are encouraged to allow a minimum of 1 to 2 hours for their visit to the Museum.
The Museum is open Thursday through to Monday (closed Tuesday & Wednesday, except NSW School Holidays). (Christmas Day and morning of Anzac Day excepted) from 10 AM to 4 PM. Other times by arrangement.
On display at the Museum are the best examples of the fish fossils so far recovered from the site. but stand by for further developments there is a plan to reopen the site and who knows what other exciting finds will then be made including possibly a complete early tetrapod (an ancestor of modern 4-footed, vertebrate, air breathing animals).
Visitors are able to get close-up and personal with the actual fossils on display and even touch them! Come and pay a visit and learn more about fossils, geology and evolution from one of the most iconic and unique fossil discoveries on Earth.
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School Trips & Group Bookings
The Age of Fishes Museum aims to stimulate and develop a students interest in fossils and broaden their understanding of how fossils tell us about the different kinds of organisms that lived on the earth and how they have replaced one another over geological time.
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Earth and Environmental Science is presented in an easy to follow and entertaining way, designed to engage students' imagination and increase their skills in observing measuring, interpreting, communicating, researching and recording.
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Learning outcomes vary with age and length of visit and will be influenced by the level of prior knowledge and pre-visit preparation.
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Programme content may include:
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Environmental changes on Earth over geological time and the effects on living organisms.
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How fossils are formed and how we can use them to interpret the history of life on the Earth.
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Survival and extinction of species.
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Evolution,Natural Selection and the diversity of living things.
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Natural Selection.
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Transitional forms- eg. how fishes with fins evolved into fish with feet and invaded the land.
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Geological history and the Devonian period.
Visits and information are tailored to meet the student learning needs and ages.
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The Age of Fishes Museum has a range of information programs. Resources and workbooks for Kindergarten to Year 12 have been developed to assist teachers. These will be emailed or forwarded to the school on confirmation of booking.
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Teachers planning an educational group visit are invited to a free visit to the museum to preview the amazing things we have on offer.
Groups please book in advance.
Other Activities
Are you interested in discovering what paleontologists do, and learn about the techniques they use to find, extract, study and catalogue fossils?
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If so, there is nothing quite as exhilarating as being the first person to dig up and set eyes on the fossil of a creature that lived millions of years ago and to learn more about it, its habitat and its significance.​
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Gondwana Dreaming​​
Dig Bookings - Monica Yeung
Gondwana Dreaming P/L
PO Box 3017
Weston ACT 2611
Email: myeung@gondwanadreaming.com
Web: www.gondwana-dreaming.com
Tel: 02-62851872
Mob: 0428-164469​​
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Mid Lachlan Landcare​
Mid Lachlan Landcare runs educational tours on local farms which demonstrate how understanding earth processes are important for the management of sustainable food production.
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Mid Lachlan Landcare tours can cover a range of content for a variety of school subjects and student ages. Tours are flexible and can run from 90mins to 3 days.
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Mid Lachlan Landcare tours can commence and end at the Age of Fishes Museum and farm-based field sites are available within a 5-minute drive of Canowindra.
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​Web: www.midlachlanlandcare.org