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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:
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:
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.
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