National Museum of Australia Canberra

17.10.11
After a 4 1/2 hour trainride I arrived in Canberra where I met my new couchsurfing hosts. What a lovely couple. Very nice and well travelled. Got a home cooked meal that night :) Yummy :)
They were very helpful and gave me a few tips where to go and what to see but there isn't as much as I expected. Basically just the Parliamennt …

Was woken up by the fire alarm AGAIN! twice in one week this has happended, I hadnt slept well last night, so finally managed to fall asleep in the early hours to sort of vaguley wake to some sort of beeping but wasnt too loud to totally wake me up, till Elisa started calling me saying its the fire alarm and we need to get up, then suddenly this …

Entry containing 4 photos titled: Federation Square at night, City, Melbourne South Banks, South Bank

The Capital of Oz is Canberra apparently, which is something many people don't know as they assume its Sydney or Melbourne as it is more well known and more popular. So I went as you have to go to the Capital when you are travelling! Also Acacia lives just outside Canberra on a farm, (I met Acacia in Thailand) and wanted to see her to.

While we were in China we were travelling with the most amazing couple, Anne and Brent, who were on their way back to live in Australia after many years working in Scotland. They invited us to come and stay with them when we got to the country, and we very excitedly left Sydney knowing that we would get to see them again.

Brent picked us …

TIRED BUT HAVING FUN

This is going to be short and sweet because of the first part of the opening statement.

Today consisted of 4 attractions. They were the Australian War Memorial, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Museum and CSIRO,

Fun and learning happened at all these places ranging from holding stick insects …

... matters. As a tourist, Canberra is a blast because almost everything is free thanks to the Australian taxpayer. The National Museum of Australia was enormous, yet imaginative and innovative in its displays. In particular the sporting hall of fame offered ...

... of hours getting ready, having breakfast and chatting to the family before we decided upon making a trip to the National Museum of Australia in the centre of Canberra...as it is free. Josie and Theo dropped us off at the museum while the rest of the ...

... I still enjoyed my aimless wander around the gallery. That afternoon, I eventually boarded the right bus for the National Museum of Australia and spent a couple of hours taking in the various exhibits which focused on the history and unique culture ...

... up and down both sides of ANZAC Parade and looking at all the monuments close up will take about an hour. National Museum of Australia (4/5) - This building had the most striking exterior of all the museums in Canberra. Inside there were good exhibits, ...

... for choice with what to do first and decided that as I was in the right place, I might as well go to the National Museum of Australia. There seemed to be dozens of flies in Canberra which was really annoying, however I soon got to the Museum. This ...

... lake, but you'd never guess what we found - yes - the bike hire place was closed! So we went off to the National Museum of Australia. This is free as well, and has some good exhibitions but to be honest, we were feeling a bit information overloaded and ...

... , a nice new shiny dollar, as a keepsake....or maybe the start of his coin collection!!!! Our next stop was to the National Museum of Australia, to brush up on our Ozzie history.  It was a large building that had a massive foyer but the museum ...

... we were free to tour the museum for the rest of the evening.   Built in 2001, the National Museum of Australia contains exhibitions covering all aspects of Australian history, from the first aboriginal inhabitants to modern Australian ...

... . It is closed every day by a lone bugler playing the Last Post outside the Hall of Memory. A fitting tribute. The National Museum of Australia and the Parliment buildings were on the agenda for Saturday. The very modern museum included (to name just ...

Today we went to the Museum.... what a disappointment.... very comtempory building (which looked cool).... the artifacts inside the building were ok too, but the layout of the building was so bad... you missed bits of the exhibition, you went up levels ...