Megafauna Central is a new Alice Springs museum containing and displaying Central Australia’s extensive Alcoota fossil collection, including rare flightless birds and ancient thylacines from the Miocene period.
The adaptive reuse of an old bank building has meant a lower environmental impact than a new build, and helps to reactivate a quieter part of the CBD.
Megafauna Central is a dynamic new facility combining a ‘front of house’ public exhibition and events space together with a ‘back of house’ research and administrative area. A viewing window from the exhibition space into the fossil workshop offers the public a glimpse into the inner workings of fossil cleaning and preservation.
Megafauna Central offers a palate of mixed materials and considered details, and is an example of interior architecture that brings together tourism, education, research, science, public amenity and community benefit into a unique visitor experience.
