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Museum of the Great Southern
Sixteen Legs

Location

Museum of the Great Southern
Residency Road, Albany / Kinjarling

Dates

This exhibition has now finished. Please visit Exhibitions to see what’s on at the Museum.
Saturday 1 July
– Sunday 15 October 2023

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Free exhibition

This exhibition has now finished. Please visit Exhibitions to see what’s on at the Museum.

Some corners of the Universe have bred the most wonderful things..

Journey into a world like no other, overseen by still-living giant prehistoric spiders the size of dinner plates seeking love in the dark.

Meet animals that outlasted the dinosaurs, survived the splitting of the continents and that have endured the entirety of human civilisation in Australia’s deepest caves.

Explore a world of twisted beauty, haven to a variety of weird inhabitants but hostile to others. This is a place full of weird animals and unusual rock formations, and where surface dwellers may drown in the very air itself.

Come and explore the hidden world beneath our feet!

An underground creature
Sixteen Legs/Bookend Trust
A person looking at an underground creature
Sixteen Legs/Bookend Trust
A cave system
Sixteen Legs/Bookend Trust
A cave system
Sixteen Legs/Bookend Trust

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Produced by the Bookend Trust's 'Out of the Wilderness' project, with tour assistance from the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.

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