Naracoorte Museum and Snake Pit
This privately owned tourist complex contains an extensive museum housed in 5 buildings with over 100 metres of glass show cases. Over 100 collection are featured, including displays of antiques, gemstones, butterflies, clocks, weapons, cameras, coins, birds eggs, badges, irons, bottles, fossils and shells. A feature of the complex is a display of local reptiles.
Address:
1 Jenkins Terrace, Naracoorte, SA
Tel:
0887622059
Hours:
10am-5pm Mon-Thu, 10am-1pm Friday, 2pm-5pm weekends, 10am-5pm Mon-Sat school and public holidays, 2pm-5pm Sun
Admission:
Adults $7.50, concession $6.00, children $4.00, coach groups and family concessions apply
Facilities:
Wheelchair access, education programs, video, shop, crafts, toilets
Collection:
120 varied collections
Subject:
- Natural History Museum
- Social History Museum
- Glass
- Jewellery
- Pottery and Ceramics
- Armed Forces
- Numismatics, Coins and Currency
- Domestic Items
- Local History
- Medals and Badges
- Militaria
- Rural Life
- Weapons Arms and Armor
- Agriculture
- Clocks
- Communications
- Horse Drawn Transport
- Hunting, Fishing, Trapping
- Lighting
- Mines and Mining
- Tools
- Aboriginal Culture
- Pacific Cultures
- Gardens
- Mineralogy
- Natural Sciences
- Plants
- Vertebrates
- Film Sound and Video