Museum of Tropical Queensland, Maritime museum in Townsville, Australia.

The Museum of Tropical Queensland occupies a purpose-built building on Ross Creek in Townsville's CBD, opened in 2000 on the site of its 1987 predecessor. Its galleries hold the State Collection's maritime archaeology material, including excavated artefacts from HMS Pandora (1779), plus coral and biodiversity collections. A 1:1 replica of the Pandora's bow stands as a memorial to the wreck.

Opened in 1987 along Ross Creek as the Queensland Museum, North Queensland Branch, it took the name Museum of Tropical Queensland in 1990. Fundraising by the Townsville community, the Pandora Foundation and government paid for a new building on the same site, opened in 2000 with a 1:1 replica of the Pandora's bow and a dedicated Pandora Gallery.

The exhibitions present stories of Indigenous peoples from tropical regions alongside European maritime exploration through artifacts and documentation on display. Visitors can see how these two perspectives are woven together throughout the collections.

The museum stands on Ross Creek in Townsville's CBD, in the same complex as Reef HQ Aquarium, and the giant spider sculpture Spinderella hangs above Flinders Street East. The Pandora Gallery and the two upper gallery levels are reached from the entrance level, so allow time to work through all floors. The building opened on 3 June 2000.

The museum holds over 8,000 artefacts from about 25 shipwrecks along the Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef, including material from HMS Pandora, which sank in 1791 after capturing some Bounty mutineers. Current research examines copper alloy finds to determine where and when unidentified wrecks were built.