Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum Tour

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By Red Dirt Tours, the trip to Australia's premier dinosaur museum, the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum, 12 kilometres out from Winton is a must-see attraction liked by visitors of all ages. Some images follow the very unique aspects of the tour - things you won't see in a big city, but following those images is a collage gallery of the shop, Dinosaur Canyon, dinosaur statues and the Fossil Preparation Laboratory. Then, to conclude is a summary of the tour. I selected the Age of Dinosaurs and Rangelands Rifts tours because they contrasted, could total a day's worth of touring, and are ideal for reviewing because you have the more adult but still general audience Rangeland Rifts tour ( review linked here, ) and the more family-friendly but still general audience Age of Dinosaurs tour reviewed in this review. Note a jump-up is a mesa or small tableland as commonly seen in the Winton Formation - and not a name of any particular hill - the museum is on a much wider jump-up than the jump-up in the Rangeland Rifts tour.







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The tour has four sections - it's not totally walkable because each building is distant from the other, but the tour driver transports the tourists between each section. First in this four-hour tour is the Fossil Preparation Laboratory - where you can see technicians chisel real fossils, then a visit to the gift store and some displays and informative big screen viewing about how the museum CEO was a cattle farmer who donated the land for the museum. The video explains the council were able to build sealed roads to the museum buildings. The final informative section is the footprints where some of the best exhibits of footprints of Sauropods, as well as other dinosaurs, are seen in a dwelling, hence despite looking like a rock formation, they are extremely significant to palaeontologists (the scientists specialising in the study of fossil life such as dinosaurs). In fairness, the more you observe their shape and form during the tour the more apparent it becomes why the exhibit is so special to palaeontologists - and thus a little bit of education helps inform all visitors as to how special the exhibit truly is. Note the footprints have been excavated and are not in their original location. The final section of the tour is Dinosaur Canyon, with stunning grassland views and dinosaur education on a very smooth gradient and not overly long pathway (About 400 metres to the end and compulsory to walk it or dare I say wheel it back, as it is not a very strenuous uphill).

Amazing end to my Winton holiday although do note the airport was not part of the tour, but some passengers needed to use it for their own reasons - it made much space in the bus for an easy drop-off at the delightful North Gregory Hotel, for the final overnight of my stay. Note that my Red Dirt Tours reviews like this one were to create that balance for readers between wanting to visit and not wanting the holiday to lose its serendipity. Note details like concession costs are fully described at reddirttours.com.au. A full tour adult ticket is $100 AUD and the tour is a half day in duration, departing in the morning from accommodations in Winton. Finally, I am obviously shattered to have to go home tomorrow - Winton had everything I could want in a holiday, and highly recommended to stay at least a week - for new adventures and experiences yielding memories which last a lifetime.

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