A stunning scene of tree ferns and water greets visitors when they enter Melbourne Museum. The Forest Gallery and its 'living exhibition', entitled Forest Secrets, captures the essential qualities of Victoria's tall mountain forests with trees, plants and wildlife. In addition to being a beautiful and refreshingly different experience, the Forest Gallery captivates visitors with stories drawn from Museum Victoria's unique view of the forests. The verdant fern gully scene with a waterfall and wisps of fog at the entrance leads into a series of pathways that go around, through and under the forest landscape and the creek system.
Visitors feel fog, splashes of water, rock surfaces, sun and shade.
They can touch the plants, smell the forest leaf litter, and hear frog calls. Small forest birds hop past on the pathway and native fish dart around the stream. Forest Secrets provides insights into the interconnected and multi-layered nature of forest life through the theme of change. There are five pathways in the gallery. Proudly supported by Melbourne Water.