About Us

Company:

Gondwana Studios is an Australian-based operation that specializes in the production of custom design museum displays. We have been distributing exhibit material for national and international markets since 1991. Our experienced team has traveled internationally molding and casting for museums around the world.

Gondwana Studios has evolved from a trade account that operated under the umbrella of the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery. Our teams of technicians were given permission to manufacture moulds of dinosaurs from the Palaeontological Institute of Moscow that toured Australia and the United States of America in the Great Russian Dinosaurs Exhibition. The standard of quality has been identified as amongst the highest in the world according to Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich from the Monash University, Melbourne.

Our Services Include:

• custom exhibit fabrication
• molding, casting
• sculpting, model making
• skeleton articulation and reconstruction
• metal fabrication 
• artifact mounting
• taxidermy
• crating and shipping
• exhibit installation 

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. 

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:

• Scientifically accurate and of the highest quality
• Reflect realism and flexibility within the range of posture
• Made from modern lightweight environmentally safe materials
• Used as a teaching resource for Universities, Schools and Museums
• Capable of being transported worldwide in the form of traveling exhibition material

Location & Facilities:

Our company operates out of the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Inveresk, a modern and recently renovated facility, with an additional off site workshop and storage.

Material produced by Gondwana Studios:

Our exhibit material has been distributed extensively worldwide, several items went on display in Steven Spielberg's Lost World Exhibition.

Since then our team has produced two traveling exhibitions entitled Ghosts of the Great Russian Dinosaurs, one of which was the centre piece for Dinofest in Philadelphia.

Our Clients Include:

American Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.

Antarctic and Southern Ocean Science Center, Australia

Australian Museum, Australia

BBC, U.K.

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.

Duke University, U.S.A.

Field Museum, U.S.A.

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan

Goshoura Cretaceous museum, Japan

Gunma Museum, Japan

John Hopkins University, U.S.A.

Kenosha Public Museum, U.S.A.

Kent State University, U.S.A.

Kuzuo Town Museum, Japan

Mesa Southwest Museum, U.S.A.

Museum of New Zealand, New Zealand

Monash University, Australia

Museum Of Evolution, Sweden

Museum of Victoria, Australia

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.

Queensland Museum, Australia

Royal Ontario Museum, Canada

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 A&M University, U.S.A.

Texas Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.

Texas Tech. University, U.S.A.

The Stone Company, U.S.A.

Toyohashi City Natural Science Museum, Japan

Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, Japan

Universal Studios, U.S.A.

University of New Orleans, U.S.A.

University of Tasmania, Australia

University of Wollongong, Australia

Valdosta State University, U.S.A.

Yamanashi Gakuin University, Japan