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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