Eromanga Natural History Museum

A recent trip around the Natural Sciences Loop in South West Queensland took OverOz to Eromanga. Eromanga is best known as the furthest town form the sea in Australia. It is also home to Australia’s largest Dinosaur (Cooper). The Eromanga Natural History Museum (ENHM), with aid of 3D printing is rebuilding Cooper in actual size. The ENHM is a must see. Luxury Outback Accommodation is available on site at 'Cooper’s Country Lodge'.

They run one hour hands on tours through the ENHM workshop, dinosaur and megafauna laboratories and collection room. You will be immersed in the prehistoric and modern day story of this unique and diverse part of Outback Australia. The passionate tour guides are locals who have had firsthand experience and training in excavation, prepping and collecting the Eromanga dinosaurs, Eulo megafauna and other natural history collections.

Eromanga is the largest town in the Cooper Basin. The Cooper Basin, and the overlying Eromanga Basin, host Australia’s largest and most prolific producing onshore oil and gas development. Eromanga is one of the oldest towns in the history of Queensland, gazetted in March 1879. Throughout its long history it has become famous for its boulder opal fields, pioneering pastoral families and properties, gas & oil, the Guinness Record Steve Fossett ‘Spirit of Freedom’ solo balloon flight landing site, and now to add to the list Eromanga is famous for being the home to Cooper, Australia’s largest dinosaurs.

For more information http://www.enhm.com.au