Social story about the Gandel Gondwana Garden

I am going to visit the Gandel Gondwana Garden at Melbourne Museum.

I will arrive at the entry to the Gandel Gondwana Garden on Level 1.

I will enter the top area of the garden. In this area, I can see a grindstone that First Peoples use to grind grass seed for food.

I can lift some flaps to learn more about the plants and animals in this area. I can see the shapes of emus and kangaroos.

There are chairs here too, and I can sit and eat and drink.

After this terrace area, the path will start to slope downwards until I arrive at the exit.

I will walk down the path and see some shapes of giant animals who lived with First Peoples.

There is a giant kangaroo shape of Macropus titan, and I can move some mechanical signs to see animals that pollinate plants.

I will arrive at a small open cave and can touch some replica fossils of an ancient lion-like animal, Thylacoleo.

It looks like a lion but is an ancient marsupial. There is an enormous yellow replica of Thylacoleo’s skull.

I can touch this but not climb on it.

I will move down to the next area, where I will see the shape of Pelagornis, a giant bird that once lived here.

There are steps cut out of the rock, and I can find fossils hidden under flaps.

I will move to the end of the path.

I will see shapes of a big dinosaur, Australovenator, and a smaller dinosaur, Leaellynasaura, who lived here millions of years ago.

I can see and play with a dinosaur nest of Leaellynasaura eggs that has sand in it.

I will exit the Gandel Gondwana Garden through a cave-like structure.

There are a few airlocks, and I will stay with my adult.

I will walk through a passage with lights up above, and after the last airlock, I will arrive in the Dinosaur Walk exhibition.

I will think about what I have seen and learnt in the Gandel Gondwana Garden.