South Australian Museum

The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum founded in 1856. The museum contains a significant collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural artifacts.

The permanent galleries include exhibits on:

• Australian Aboriginal Cultures
• South Australian Biodiversity
• World Mammals
• Mawson
• Megafauna
• Minerals and Meteorites
• Fossils
• Pacific Cultures
• Ancient Egyptian Room

Among the many historical objects and exhibits in the South Australian Museum, the following are some highlights:

• Addyman Plesiosaur fossil
• Australian Aboriginal Shields
• Mawson Collection
• Bronze head of an Oba (king) of Benin

South Australian Museum

• Name:                       South Australian Museum
• Established:             1847
• Type:                         Natural history museum
• Location:                  North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
• City:                           Adelaide

A Tour of Museums  in Australia

• Museums in Sydney
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Australian Museum
  • Australian National Maritime Museum
  • Museum of Sydney
  • Powerhouse Museum
  • Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
  • Nicholson Museum
  • Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
  • Museum of Fire

• Museums in Melbourne
  • National Gallery of Victoria
  • Melbourne Museum
  • Shrine of Remembrance
  • Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
  • State Library of Victoria
  • National Sports Museum
  • Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
  • Old Melbourne Gaol
  • Chinese Museum, Melbourne
  • Jewish Museum of Australia

• Museums in Canberra
  • National Museum of Australia
  • National Gallery of Australia
  • Australian War Memorial
  • National Portrait Gallery

• Museums in Brisbane
  • Queensland Art Gallery
  • Queensland Museum & Science Centre
  • MacArthur Museum Brisbane
  • RD Milns Antiquities Museum
  • Queensland Maritime Museum
  • Commissariat Store, Brisbane
  • Queensland Police Museum

• Museums in Perth
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia
  • WA Shipwrecks Museum
  • Perth Mint
  • WA Maritime Museum
  • Fremantle Prison

• Museums in Adelaide
  • Art Gallery of South Australia
  • South Australian Museum
  • Migration Museum, Adelaide

• Museums in Hobart
  • Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• Museums in Darwin
  • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
  • Darwin Military Museum

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“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.”
– Renzo Piano

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