Best places: Museums in Australia

Shrine and museum built as a visual focus for the country's gratefulness for military sacrifice.

Eccentric collection of motoring, brewing & domestic items, including thousands of global beer cans.

Guided tours of cockpits & decommissioned airplanes, including a Boeing 747, plus jet engines.

Museum with armored & artillery vehicles dating back to the 1800s, including many WWII exhibits.

Outdoor museum set in a tin mining town with 1800s buildings & machinery plus a blacksmith workshop.

Contemporary, modern & indigenous art displayed in a classical-style building, founded in 1871.

Completed in 1901, this working lighthouse features sweeping bay views, a maritime museum & tours.

Aviation museum featuring a number of historic military craft & regular flying displays.

Noteworthy institution celebrating film, television and gaming with exhibits, screenings and events.

Museum since 1964 exploring Australia's motoring history with rare & vintage vehicles & a gift shop.

Restored 1850s-era commissariat building with artifacts documenting shipwrecks & their relics.

Collection of historic locomotives, plus passenger & freight cars, with steam train rides.

National war memorial featuring a small museum & a pink granite exterior with sculptures & reliefs.

👍👍 Free entry museum that is incredibly quiet clean and well maintained. The museum spans multiple floors from modern art to historical displays in the museum section covering everything from Ancient China, Pompeii, Egypt to taxidermied animals. Beautiful and educational, a must visit.

Museum exploring firearms history & technology in a former precision engineering factory.

1836 lighthouse featuring an iron spiral staircase to the tower balcony & clifftop views of the sea.

👍👍 Fantastic! Brought back lots of memories! growing up with Holden's! Wonderful display, really well done!

👍👍 Amazing and wow experience. I recently visited this museum and was quite impressed with aircraft’s and planes they have there. Most of them are open to public to climb and have feel of sitting in the cockpit of a fighter plane. Flight simulator was the best. It had a lot kids birthday parties as wel...

Volunteer-run museum featuring historical artifacts, imagery & audio exhibits on the Vietnam War.

Regional antique cars & motorcycles are displayed along with memorabilia in a large warehouse space.