For a bit of science and history during your stay in Adelaide, consider visiting the South Australian Museum. An Egyptian mummy, animal fossils, Pacific islander artifacts and aboriginal boomerangs ...
Museums are no strangers to controversial exhibits and questionable collection practices. But in 1874, when two big burly blokes hustled a man out of the Australian Museum and chucked him out onto the ...
The Australian Museum has received new funding in a difficult time for the sector. Paul Hocksenar The Australian Museum has joined the chorus of cultural institutions that have recently announced ...
It took nearly 40 years, but an exhibition of groundbreaking Balgo paintings, which helped give birth to the contemporary Aboriginal Australian art movement, is finally on view. Lost for decades, the ...
Philanthropists who have pumped multimillion-dollar sums into the SA Museum are angered by a proposed revamp that critics say will imperil the institution’s future. The Advertiser has been told ...
In the golden age of animal collecting, and also of taxidermy and photography, a sunfish weighing 1116 kilograms discovered grounded in mud at Darling Harbour in December 1882 was an opportunity too ...
In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared the museum is ...