After lunch they dropped us at the National Museum of Australia, were we saw two very interesting exhibitions. The first one was a tribute to the Royal Sciency Academy of London, detailling Captain James Cook's scientific expeditions and also the expeditions that led to the "discovery" of the Australian Continent. The second exhibit was also very interesting, telling the story about the route created to be able to drive the cattle from the north of australia to the centre region that was composed of water wells separated by one day's travel. That allowed also the floureshing of the mining activity in the center of the continent. This of course was possible thanks to the aborigene native (which we found out that they call themselves the Martu) guides, but also led to lots of conflits with local tribes.
Since the museum closed at 17h (like almost everythink in Canberra), we only had time for a quick peek to the permanent exhibiton, but we managed to saw our first Canguru in Australia there....
...but it was of course embalmed....
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