Snowy Hydro Discovery Centre and Cafe

We visited this free to visit discovery centre on a weekday. It wasn't crowded and there were many interesting exhibits about power generation and the dam system in the Snowy Mountains. There is also a cafe and souvenir shop here.

The discovery centre is not big but it gives a good overview of the Snowy Hydro scheme. The terrain model shows the scale of the scheme, with lights showing tunnels, power stations and all the lakes. The operational dashboard on the wall gives real time status of all the pumps, energy generation, water levels and so on. And finally, there is a model of the Tunnel Boring Machine that is being used in Snowy 2.0 right now. One suggestion that I have for the shop would be to have something like a commemorative coin and/or brass tokens for tourists to bring home memories of their visit.

My father and I really enjoyed our time here. It's great that it's free and supported by the Australian government. The coffee and cake is great so we decided to have these in lieu of the admission fee. The IMAX theatre was really excellent. I'd like to see some other film choices there as well. Great facilities, tables and chairs to have coffee inside or outside and toilets and great displays.

What a great place to stop for a tea or coffee. The discovery centre was awesome for my son to learn about the snowy mountains scheme and snowy 2.0. Stef, one of the tour guides, also did a presentation, she was very knowledgeable and friendly.

Fantastic and informative place to learn about the original Snowy Scheme. So much information and history from the original snowy scheme. You can spend hours and hours looking and reading about the snowy hydro scheme, the workers and locations that had to work in. The staff working there are super nice and helpful answering all questions. Will definitely be back as I didn’t spend enough time there the first time. Well worth the visit especially if travelling into Cooma.

Great place to learn about one of our biggest engineering marvels. They have two talks one is a 1975 video and the other is a presentation with some fly overs and a more modern video. Cafe has great coffee. And a selection of warm food like sausage roll, pie, quiche and then sandwiches and other snacks. Great cakes.

We loved the movie which tells the story of the place.

Amazed by the magnificent Snowy Hydro, well done entire team for this awesome renewable energy project. Also great spot to visit during school holidays, very informative videos and activities for kids.