National Dinosaur Museum, Dinosaur museum in Nicholls, Canberra, Australia

The National Dinosaur Museum occupies a site in Gold Creek Village, Nicholls, with displays indoors and a dinosaur garden outside. Its exhibition follows the evolution of life with a focus on dinosaurs, combining real and replica skeletons, bones and fossils with crystals, meteorites and life-size dinosaur models, including twelve animatronic dinosaurs added in 2012.

The National Dinosaur Museum opened in 1993 in Gold Creek Village, Nicholls. In September 2011 Jeno Kapitany, Martin Rowe, Chris Michael, Kathleen Michael and geologist Tom Kapitany were appointed directors. Twelve animatronic dinosaurs and life-size models indoors and out were added in April and May 2012, followed by displays of Australian dinosaurs, meteorites and fluorescent minerals in 2012–2013. In 2017 it began a cooperation with the Geological Museum of China, and in April 2023 it marked its 30th anniversary.

The museum runs school programmes built around the Australian curriculum, with guided tours that let students touch and handle specimens. During school holidays it stages events such as "Dance With Dinosaurs" and dinosaur sleepovers, and it also hosts birthday parties and corporate functions. Its gift shop sells natural history books, dinosaur replicas, toys, fossils, crystals, minerals and meteorite samples.

The museum sits in Gold Creek Village in Nicholls, on the edge of Canberra, with displays both indoors and in an outdoor dinosaur garden, so allow time for both. School groups use the interactive touch-and-feel tours, and holiday events such as dinosaur sleepovers fill the calendar, so check the museum's Facebook page before visiting.

In 2017 vandals scaled the fence and used a hacksaw or angle grinder to remove the heads of three replica dinosaurs. The museum also runs dinosaur sleepovers during school holidays and publishes a Kids Dino News Blog for young palaeontologists.