The Museum Cafe - National Museum of Australia

The Museum Cafe - National Museum of Australia

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Posted 2015-05-31 by Sue Wfollow
This Café has one of the best views of Lake Burley Griffin that you will find in this beautiful city. From enjoying the view at one of the many outside tables, or from sitting inside admiring the architecture, you will always have something to look at whilst dining at this cosy Café.

The outside shape of this Café is quite unusual, which fits in with the rest of the architectural lines of the Museum. If you are visiting Canberra for the first time, or new to town, the National Museum is the unusual colourful building with the loop over it that you see as you cross one of the main bridges over Lake Burley Griffin. When we first moved here we thought it was a rollercoaster!

The buildings architects (Melbourne architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall and peckvonhartel) wanted to reflect the many intertwined stories of Australia's past - which includes the 30 metre tangled loop ("The Uluru Line") above the Museum.





The Museum Café has an extensive range of cakes, pastries and drinks from the display cases to choose from. The Menu changes weekly due to seasonal produce, so if you would like to see what they have on offer it is best to check their website before you go, or enjoy the surprise.

With items on the menu including gourmet focaccia's and pides, pot pies, homemade sausage rolls, fish specialities, a variety of salads, beer battered chips and more. Also the specials boards provide more substantial restaurant choices, so you will find something to your taste or budget.



There is plenty of seating inside and out. The location provides a handy view of the Captain Cook Memorial jet which shoots up water between 2pm - 4pm daily.





With such an interesting (free!) Museum outside, the kids will enjoy wandering around and exploring all the exhibits. There is Phar Lap's heart on display, a piece of ochre used by Aboriginal artists over 50,000 years ago and if you take the kids outside they will enjoy exploring the tunnels and hills of "The Garden of Australian Dreams" - a stylised map of Australia where each step you take equals 100km.



There are kids activities and displays designed just for children, so if you want to make more of your Café visit with your family, allow yourself plenty of time and check out the "Families Page" section on their website before you go.

Having such a scenic Café, in such an interesting location inside our National Museum, Canberra has a Café experience with culture that you are sure to enjoy.

Coffee with a side of culture - Canberra style!



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