Platypus House

Platypus House offers up close and personal interactions with two of Australia’s most unique and delightful mammals: the Tasmanian Platypus and Australian short-beaked Echidna.
These fascinating creatures are unlike any other mammals on earth, and are part of the mammalian Order, Monotremes, also known as the egg-laying mammals.

Your Platypus House fully guided tour includes:
• A 15 minute film of rare footage captured of young platypus (puggles) in their burrow.
• An informative interpretation room, where you can feel the pelt of a platypus and the spines of an echidna.
• 5 Platypus (Dusky, Thor, Freya, Dawn and Jupiter) all fed on your tour.
• Three tanks that offer full, clear underwater views of our platypus as they dive to find their food.
• One large pool that offers great surface views of our Platypus as they bring their food to the surface to eat or enjoy a relaxing scratch on the banks of the tank.
• 3 Echidnas (Eddie, Edwina and Thomas) all fed on your tour.
• A stroll through the echidna garden where our echidnas happily roam around your feet or even climb into your lap if you sit quietly.
• Fascinating information about our monotremes throughout your tour given by our amazing staff.

After the tour, feel free to browse our gift shop or have a bite to eat (cookies and coffee, or toasted sandwich and coffee specials are available).
Or try our fresh raspberry or blackberry mixed ice cream, or one of our many flavours of gelato and sorbet.
After something a little different? We also sell Frozen Tasmanian Abalone
If you are interested in visiting our neighbours, Seahorse World or the Beaconsfield Mine Museum, we offer a Platypus House and Seahorse World Double Deal or a Platypus House, Seahorse World and Beaconsfield Mine Museum Triple Deal. Both double and triple deals can be paid for at either three businesses or at any Tasmanian Information Centres and last up to 3 months.