Spiders are awesome – they can spin webs, climb, swim, dance, parachute and they can even drop a limb when threatened and grow it back!

At the Australian Museum’s major new exhibition you’ll discover why spiders are the most successful animals on the planet and just how dangerous (or not) they really are… Spiders – Alive & Deadly will ignite your curiosity, conquer your fears and leave you seeing spiders in a whole new light.

Opening every day from 9.30am to 5pm until July 2017, the exhibition enables you to get closer to over 400 spider specimens including live tarantulas and deadly funnel-webs. You can see live spider milking at the Venom Lab, daily at 10.30am and 1.30pm, when professional spider wranglers are collecting venom for the University of Queensland’s venom library.

Be completely surrounded by live Dome Tent-web Spiders and their large dome-shaped webs in a viewing sphere or enter into the rarely seen world of the Tasmanian Cave Spider. Grab a virtual torch to shed light on their mysterious home. As your shadow is cast on the cave walls, interact with these web weavers! Or test your strength against spider silk and dare yourself to try lots of other creepy crawly immersive experiences.

What: Spiders – Alive and Deadly – Exhibition at the Australian Museum

When: Every day, 9.30am to 5pm, until Sunday 16 July 2017

Where: Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney

For more information, visit the exhibition’s website or the facebook page of the Australian Museum.