Flinders Discovery Centre

The Flinders Discovery Centre is a museum and accredited visitor information centre located on Gray Street in Hughenden, Flinders Shire, Queensland. It showcases the region's natural history, pastoral heritage and dinosaur discoveries, including a life-size Muttaburrasaurus replica known as Hughie. Exhibits cover fossils, Porcupine Gorge National Park and local station life. It serves as the main hub for visitor information, tours and interpretation of the Australian Dinosaur Trail in outback Queensland.

Visitors can expect a combined museum and visitor information centre on the Flinders Highway in central Hughenden. Inside are fossil displays, a full-scale Muttaburrasaurus skeleton replica, interpretive exhibits on Porcupine Gorge, sheep and cattle station history, and local heritage. The centre includes a gift shop, cafe area and information desk for maps, tour bookings and advice on Porcupine Gorge and the Australian Dinosaur Trail. The building is air-conditioned with outdoor picnic and parking areas.

The centre interprets the 1963 discovery of the Muttaburrasaurus langdoni near Muttaburra and subsequent fossil finds around Hughenden that established the region as part of Australia's dinosaur fossil heritage. It also documents Flinders Shire pastoral history from the 1860s, including Hughenden Station and the wool industry that shaped outback Queensland settlement.

The centre serves as the cultural and tourism hub for Flinders Shire, preserving and presenting outback pastoral heritage, paleontological heritage and the natural significance of Porcupine Gorge. It is a key stop on the Australian Dinosaur Trail linking Hughenden, Richmond and Winton.