Cairns Excursions

Museum of Tropical Queensland

This fun museum is interactive and state of the art, designed to tell stories of the high seas like that of HMS Pandora, the ship that captured the Bounty mutineers before coming to grief on the Great Barrier Reef in 1791. The museum also details the natural and human history of tropical Queensland, and there is a fun science centre included. The building is set on the water and includes a shop and cafe.

Address: 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville; Website: www.mtq.qm.qld.gov.au; Telephone: (0)7 4726 0600; Opening time: Daily 9.30am to 5pm (closed Christmas Day, Good Friday and ANZAC morning, 25 April, reopening at 1pm); Admission: A$12 (adults), A$7 (children 4-16 years); concessions available