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Broome Museum

Broome Museum

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Cultural connection
Track casts
Videos
Large track
Head for the Rae Vale annex
Head for the Rae Vale annex
Take your time to read a few of the interesting facts
Take your time to read a few of the interesting facts
Front and back foot of a large sauropod
Front and back foot of a large sauropod

Broome Museum Information

Enjoy the air-conditioned comfort at the Broome Museum and learn more about the cultural connection to the tracks. 

Go to the Rae Val Annexe and see casts of actual Broome tracks, travel back in time to scenes of 130 million years ago handstand next to the world’s largest dinosaur track.

Broome Museum Open Hours

May-September
10am-4pm Monday-Friday
10am-1pm Weekends

October-April
10am-1pm Daily

Website: broomemuseum.org.au/

The tracks have scientific and cultural importance of the dinosaur tracks
The tracks have scientific and cultural importance of the dinosaur tracks

Strong cultural connection

Emu in the Sky
Emu in the Sky

For thousands of years the Indigenous People of the Damper Peninsula and wider west Kimberley have had a strong cultural connection to dinosaur tracks.

The three-toed dinosaur tracks trace the journey of a Bugarrigarra (Dreamtime) creator-being called Marala, also known as Emu Man. 

There are panels and videos that explain more about this.

Stegosaurs had small feet
Stegosaurs had small feet
Can you see the ornithopod track
Can you see the ornithopod track
An old friend - a sauropod true track we see on Reddell Beach
A sauropod true track we see on Reddell Beach

Dinosaur track casts

Along the 100+ kilometres of coastline, four main groups of dinosaurs left track.

Therapods, sauropods, thyreophorans and ornithopods.

See casts of actual Broome tracks and learn more about the dinosaurs that made them.

Sit in the aircon and watch some short films
Sit in the aircon and watch some short films

Dinosaur videos

A series of short films explain the science and cultural connection to the Broome dinosaurs.

If you want to watch them all, allow 2 hours. 

Largest dinosaur track

Broome has the world’s largest dinosaur track.

Take a selfie in front of the image and wow your friends and family.

The location is secret and the track is too fragile to make a cast of, so here is a to-scale image. The details have been supplied by Assoc Prof Steve Salisbury. 

If you use the standard formula of ‘track length x 3.2 = hip height’ this dinosaur would be 6 metres high at the hip. This dinosaur was pretty big.

The largest dinosaur footprint in Australia
The largest dinosaur footprint in the world