The Australian Opal Centre is an extraordinary national museum being developed in the outback opal mining town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales to preserve, display and research the greatest ever public collection of Australian opal, opalised fossils and the colourful history and heritage of the Australian opal fields. P: (+61) 2 6829 1667 E: contact@australianopalcentre.com Australian Opal Centre PO Box 229 3/11 Morilla St Lightning Ridge NSW 2834. Water will be stored underground and recycled for use on the Gondwanan garden. When a spotted-tailed quoll wanders into your house. Australian Opal Centre PO Box 229 3/11 Morilla St Lightning Ridge NSW 2834. Australian Opal Centre - the most exciting project in Australia! In the beautiful outback landscape of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales ground has been broken in preparation for the construction of a new Australian Opal Centre building.This amazing national museum designed by acclaimed architects Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin will be an energy-efficient, two storey underground building, filled with glittering treasures and stories of the people who found them.Visitors will approach the new Australian Opal Centre across the historic Three Mile opal field, where Bimble Box and Wild Orange trees, ancient machines and mounds of pink and cream opal dirt create a sparsely beautiful outback landscape that echoes with a century of opal mining history.There, they will discover a remarkable building recessed into, and protected by, the earth.The complex will contain magnificent permanent exhibitions, education and learning facilities, a cinema, gallery spaces, a spectacular opal vault, research library, scientific laboratory and underground gardens.100 metres long and two storeys deep, the Australian Opal Centre building will use a combination of ancient and cutting-edge modern technologies to provide its own energy, water, light and fresh air - without being connected to mains power or water.The large roof will collect rainwater and solar energy. Gradients of air temperature and pressure will drive passive ventilation systems, not unlike those used by opal miners to keep fresh air flowing through their mines.After entering the building, visitors will walk towards daylight pouring in at the end of a long, gently descending ramp. Designed by internationally renowned architects Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin, the Australian Opal Centre will celebrate our National Gemstone and be filled with glittering treasures from the earth and the stories of the people who found them.This 21st century architectural icon will be a world-class tourism attraction and a world leader in the areas of knowledge, information, education and creative exploration of Australian opal.

The Australian Opal Centre is developing a series of courses on opal- and fossil-related subjects. We have worked with the remarkable community in Lightning Ridge for over 13 years and now, to be able to realise the new Australian Opal Centre in this iconic Australian landscape is just wonderful.
And a cool underground Gondwanan garden containing trees - Wollemi pines! What do you do? Here’s how it unfolded. There, they will find that they are suspended in the side of an open-cut mine, with the geological strata of opal-bearing country exposed before them.Then around the corner and down again, to exhibitions of opal, fossils, mining machinery and the faces and legends of the opal fields. See highlights of our collection, find out about the new AOC and provide your support by shopping with us or making a donation!The health and wellbeing of our staff, volunteers, visitors and community is our top priority. The first week of the Australian Opal Centre and Australian Geographic fossil dig at Lightning Ridge has unearthed plenty of fossils and opals. P: (+61) 2 6829 1667 E: contact@australianopalcentre.com 128 were here. Australian Opal Centre, Lightning Ridge: See 15 reviews, articles, and 2 photos of Australian Opal Centre, ranked No.11 on Tripadvisor among 17 attractions in Lightning Ridge. Night parrot found in Martu country, WA.

Note that our fossil identification service is not currently available. - ferns, cycads and other descendants of the plants that lived 110 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the place we now know as Lightning Ridge.This is the vision for the Australian Opal Centre's magnificent new building.

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