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Company Background: Gondwana Studios is an Australian based company that specializes in the production of Museum quality displays. We have been producing scientifically accurate fossil casts for national and international markets since 1991. Our experienced team has traveled internationally molding and casting fossil specimens for Museums around the world. Gondwana Studios evolved from the casting Department of the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery. Our team of technicians were given permission to manufacture moulds from the ‘Great Russian Dinosaurs’ Exhibition from the Palaeontological Institute of Moscow, which toured Australia and the United States of America in the 1990s. Gondwana Studios currently produces a range of dinosaur, Permian reptile and Australian megafauna casts as well as fleshed models made from lightweight durable resins. A percentage of the proceeds made from the sales of casts by Gondwana Studios is returned to the institutions that provided the fossils for casting, to help support scientific research
Our Services Include:
Working with fragile original material we create highly accurate reproductions using the most up to date molding techniques and materials available. Casts are produced using rotational and pressure casting systems delivering the highest quality product. Models are created using all available reference material to achieve accurate interpretations. All our skeletons are pre-articulated and disassemble for easy transportation worldwide. The quality standards of the casts produced has been identified as amongst the highest in the world according to Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich from the Monash University, Melbourne. Company's Objective: Our objectives are to produce, to the highest quality, custom museum displays for both national and international distribution. All products are designed to be:
Our exhibit material has been distributed extensively worldwide. Several items went on display in Steven Spielberg's Lost World Exhibition in 1997. Since then our team has produced three travelling exhibitions, two entitled Ghosts of the Great Russian Dinosaurs, in conjunction with the Monash University, and Hatching the Past: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies in conjunction with StoneCompany.com
American Museum of Natural History, U.S.A. Antarctic and Southern Ocean Science Center, Australia Berkley, University of California, U.S.A. Beyond International, Australia Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, U.S.A. Denver Museum of Natural History, U.S.A. Dinamation International Society, U.S.A. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan Goshoura Cretaceous museum, Japan John Hopkins University, U.S.A. Kuzuo Town Museum, Japan Museum of New Zealand, New Zealand Museums and Art Galleries of Northern Territory, Australia National Opal Collection, Australia National Dinosaur Museum, Australia Natural History Museum of El Paso, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, U.S.A. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Canada Sharjah Natural History Museum, United Arab Emirates Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A. South Australian Museum, Australia State Museum of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Texas Museum of Natural History, U.S.A. Texas Tech. University, U.S.A. Toyohashi City Natural Science Museum, Japan Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, Japan University of New Orleans, U.S.A. University of Tasmania, Australia University of Wollongong, Australia |
Photos
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery at Inveresk
Facility at Inveresk
Peter Norton and Hank Van Tienen with Probactrosaurus cast
Hank Van Tienen with a Tarbosaur cast under construction
Laurie Austin working on the Protoceratops model
Taxidermist Gerald Schnitzhofer preparing specimens for Japanese exhibition
Rotational casting machine used for producing lightweight casts
Opalised Plesiosaur on display at the National Opal Collection, Sydney
