Australian Wildlife Health Centre, Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville

Opened / December 2005
Floor Area / 500 m²
Awarded / Australian Zoos Association Large Scale Exhibits Award 2006

Located in a new building designed by Minifie Nixon Architects, the AWRC provides intense engagement with an injured animal’s journey from injury to rescue, treatment, recovery and release. Highly interactive displays teach visitors what to do with an injured animal, explain and demonstrate surgical techniques, explore the role of the laboratory and pathology in animal diagnosis and treatment, interpret necropsy and investigative biology and provide lessons in care, recovery, release and monitoring.


All photography by Dianna Snape
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