Top Attractions

Healesville Sanctuary is Victoria’s top Australian wildlife destination.  From our iconic Australian animals to unique experiences such as the Australian Wildlife Health Centre, to the magical bushland environment set amongst the rolling hills of the Yarra Valley, the Sanctuary is an experience like no other.


  • Fearsome to Awesome Reptile Show

    Prepare yourself for a cold-blooded experience in the new Reptile Arena where our expert keepers will expose you to a diverse range of their scaliest friends and help you to sort fact from fiction, myth from madness. Visitors will experience the fantastic diversity of Australian reptiles and learn to appreciate their unique place in our vast land.

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  • Meet the Keeper

    Keepers share a special bond with the amazing Aussie animals in their care.  Everyday, you can come and meet them at Healesville Sanctuary by making a plan and catching a Keeper Talk, or two, or three.  It's here that you'll not only learn lots about our unique willdife, but you'll gain some unique insights into the special relationships between keepers and their special friends. 

     

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  • Spirits of the Sky

    Don't miss our exciting new Flight Arena Show, Spirits of the Sky.  Be awed by the parrots as they light up the sky and birds of prey as they feed on the wing.  Daily at 12pm and 2.30pm.

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  • Dingo Country

    Follow along the dingo fence and enter into Dingo Country, a dramatic rocky high country exhibit and new home for our Dingoes. Now listed as a threatened species in Victoria, find out why the dingo might be the answer to ecological balance in the Australian landscape.  

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  • Wildlife Hospital

    Australian Wildlife Health Centre (Wildlife Hospital or centre) at Healesville Sanctuary treats more than 2000 sick and injured native animals every year and is an important training centre for wildlife veterinarians. The hospital team also conducts  cutting-edge research into conservation medicine, clinical wildlife medicine and wildlife rehabilitation, and plays  an important role in wildlife disease surveillance

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  • Success with the platypus

    The Sidney Myer World of the Platypus is renowned as the best platypus exhibit ever constructed.

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