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See galleries, garden and public spaces, toilets and lifts across the Museum's three floors.

Ask a host for help or use these detailed directions to find special places at the Museum.

Visions Theatre
  1. From the main entrance go past the Information Desk towards the orange ‘Galleries’ sign at the far end of the Gandel Atrium.
  2. Pass through the glass sliding doors and continue past the large bunya pine tree trunk display in our Great Southern Land exhibition.
  3. You will come to a red staircase on your left, and a lift in front of you.
    1. Up the stairs: Visions Theatre is ahead on your right.
    2. Up in the lift: Visions Theatre is on your left.
Discovery Centre
  1. From the main entrance, go past the Information Desk towards the orange ‘Galleries’ sign at the far end of the Gandel Atrium.
  2. You will come to glass sliding doors. Before you enter, there is a lift to your left. Through the doors are stairs going down to your right.
    1. Down in the lift: Go to the Lower Ground floor and continue up the ramp, then through the glass sliding doors and turn left.
    2. Down the stairs: Turn left at the bottom.
  3. Go through the glass sliding doors, turn immediately right and pass through another set of glass sliding doors outside to the Garden of Australian Dreams.
  4. On the far side of the Garden is a white structure.
  5. The entrance of the Discovery Centre is to the left and just behind the white structure.
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