This outstanding museum, about 15km east of Winton, is set atop a rugged plateau known as the 'Jump Up'. There are two sides to the museum – the laboratory and the collection, the latter comprising original dinosaur fossils found in the region that make up the incomplete skeletons of 'Matilda' and 'Banjo'. Each side is visited on a 30-minute tour with a half-hour break in between.
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is also a not-for-profit organisation that's partly funded by three-week annual fossil digs ($3500 per person, per week) which book out over a year in advance. You can also spend a day ($65) or more working in the laboratory, cleaning dinosaur bones.
